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Phil Lecomber

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PHIL LECOMBER was born in 1965 in Slade Green, on the outskirts of South East London—just a few hundred yards from the muddy swirl of the Thames.

Most of his working life has been spent in and around the capital in a variety of occupations. He has worked as a musician in the city’s clubs, pubs and dives; as a steel-fixer helping to build the towering edifices of the square mile (and also working on some of the city’s iconic landmarks, such as Tower Bridge); as a designer of stained-glass windows; and—for the last quarter of a century—as the director of a small company in Mayfair specializing in the electronic security of some of the world’s finest works of art.

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“to encourage the English proletariat to adopt the tenets of Bolshevism and rise up against their betters, of course.”
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“The Lord Chancellor’s son? I mean, you’d think they’d be … well, I don’t know … doing something worthwhile.’ Harley laughed. ‘I think he’s supposed to be an ancient Greek actually, Pearson. I dunno, I suppose they all feel a bit lost, don’t they.”
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work”; but essentially it is the language of the dispossessed, the marginal.”
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