Robin Cook must deploy his depth charge

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 16, 2001| Author: ALAN WATKINS | Copyright information

At some time in the early 1950s a friend of mine entered a chemist's shop in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, and asked for a "depth charge". The shop assistant summoned the manager and, after some whispered consultation, a packet of Durex contraceptives was pushed furtively across the counter.

"Thank you very much," the young man said. "Very handy these will come in I have no doubt. But what I was really looking for, to be perfectly honest with you, was some Alka-Seltzer."

Mr Robin...

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