dysarthria – disordered speech; alexithymia – difficulty understanding or identifying one’s own emotions. Forgetfulness had been very convenient to Brockbank around that time. How difficult would it have been for him to fake some of these classic symptoms? ‘What they didn’t take into account,’ said Strike, who had known and liked several other men with traumatic brain injury, ‘was that he was a cunt to start with.’ ‘True that,’ said Hardacre, sipping his coffee while he worked. Strike closed down Brockbank’s files
