Book: In the service of evil

Even explain Strike reasons suspected Whittaker, the people most likely only would've made fun of the assumption that a lover of perversion and sadism could cut the woman's leg. Strike knew how deeply rooted in human minds the conviction that the villain always hides his dangerous propensity for violence and suppression. If this tendency is exhibited on the show, unsuspecting people only laughs, declares it to be posturing and finds in it a certain flair.

- Who painted it? - asked she, when the Strike has returned in a fresh shirt.
- My nephew Jack. He treated me bad, for no apparent reason.

One looked into the city's womb, that does not understand that London is a special world. It can be despised as the centre of power and money available to other British cities, but we need to realize that poverty here has a special flavour, that everything has a high price that unbridgeable gap between those who succeeded and all the others here painful hurts the eyes.