The very property of toxic metals that makes them so hazardous to organisms also makes them detoxifiable by humus in soil.

He had, back in Cambridge, taken one of Jem Follett’s boys for a penny, an envisioned Tom Walsingham in his head like a god and the motion towards irrumation like a prayer.

The Sevens has long been an annual coping mechanism for the BlackBerried and Burberried expatriate set, the well-heeled bankers, brokers, lawyers and property developers across the Asia-Pacific region.

I'm just not that sick.