Notes towards an alternate history: Clive of India

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.
•E.C. Bentley, Biography for Beginners (1905)

In his youth, sometime around 1960, Garrett Trapnell decided to kill himself. He placed a pistol against his heart, but then reconsidered, deciding he did not deserve a quick death, and shot himself in the stomach. A quick trip to the hospital, and Trapnell survived, to become Canada’s most notorious bank robber and hijacker. He died in prison, and much...