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Chapter 14

Charlie 88 Goes East

AFTER RETIRING EARLY FROM THE POLICE force, Mick Buckley wasn’t seen around and about for a while, He took to the funeral circuit: that is he was so depressed at not being a copper he was quite at a loss at what to do with himself. Even though he had been re-badged as a PI and kept his old brown suit, work was slow and money scarce. Invitations to the coppers’ ‘in’ parties diminished. It seems reality hits hard especially when you have left a squad in which you are deemed not trustworthy, aw well as leaving ‘The Job’.

Naturally at these ‘in’ functions there are many things under discussion, least of which would be Tithing. In such an embarrassing moment it was not unheard of for an uncouth...

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