Pete’s philosophy was a relatively simple one, ingrained in him over so many years that it was now more implicit than consciously considered: a blueprint on which his life was built. The Devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads. So he kept his hands busy and his mind occupied. Discipline and structure were important to him, and after the non-result at the waste ground he had spent most of the last forty-odd hours doing exactly what he always did. Early that morning had found him in the department’s gym: overhead presses; side laterals; rear deltoids. He worked on a
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