CHAPTER 9
When he inherited money from a person he had never met, the man known as Moses Samuel had his entire life turned upside down. Two hundred and fifty million pounds would do worse to a lot of people. Suddenly he found that he did not have to work again for the rest of his life, which was a drag for an able-bodied and very active forty-two-year-old. Twenty years back or forth, he could have been able to embark on a crash and burn life mission – like investing a substantial part of his money on a drugs and booze binge, or catching himself a twenty-year-old sexpot. But the forties were a time of life in which you begin to be seriously aware of and oddly very fearful of your mortality.
The farm which he renamed Woodstock was part of the inheritance. On the wings of a long-time fantas
