SEVENTEEN
COLCHESTER, 2023 AD
The distinguished-looking gentleman halted at the gate of the Military Corrective Training Centre to display his ID. For him, this visit was a multiple source of disgruntlement: first among these, he could think of many more pleasurable ways to spend his only day off from his pressurised work schedule; second, the disgrace to the family was hard to digest; also, there were other minor reasons for resentment if only he could be bothered to think of them. As a leading respiratory therapist in the prestigious Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, Dr Edward Lorimer, with a string of letters after his name, never thought that his younger brother would sully the Lorimer reputation. He had been proud of his sibling’s rapid promotion to the rank of major and his co
