self-dealt

Updated: May 26, 2025

He was visualising the final episode dully; the great, masterful body of his own father in the Paris morgue, the ignominious grave, even the cowardly death, self-dealt. "And he never wrote me," he muttered to himself. There he was wrong, though he could not know it until months later when the brief letter, forwarded to him by the Chief, reached him.

Jackson Gregory - Wolf Breed