Get Cartwright

by Tom Graham

  ‘And when are you going to stop talking daft and buy me a drink?’ Annie asked, raising her eyebrows in mock impatience.

  ‘My lady, forgive me,’ Sam bowed, and held the door of the pub open for her. He followed her inside and was instantly assailed by the bellowing of male voices, the blast of male laughter. He caught Nelson staring at him, and saw that the smile was gone from his face. There was even a hint of anger in his eyes.

  I’ll be for the high jump over this, Sam thought. But sod it. That’s an existential trauma for another day.

  He looked at Annie, and thought that being with her was as near to heaven as made no odds. And when he looked across at Chris, and Ray, and the mighty Gene Hunt, all three half-cut on Courage and puffing away on slim panatelas, Sam knew – he knew – that whatever this place was, whatever strange and far-flung corner of creation this replica of 1973 inhabited, it was home.

  He drew a deep breath.

  'Well, I’m back,’ he said.

  About the Author

  Tom Graham left school at 14 without qualifications. He is a smoker, and says that writing the Life on Mars novels is the nearest thing he’s had to a regular job since he got banned from driving. He part-owns a greyhound called Arthur and his ambition is to get fruity with Raquel Welch (to be clear about it, that’s Tom’s ambition, not Arthur’s).

  Also by Tom Graham

  Bombs, Bullets and Blue Stratos

  A Fistful of Knuckles

  Borstal Slags

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  This ebook first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2012

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  Ebook Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9780007472604

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