ROGUE MALE IN DORSET
Aug 05, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: Simon Murphy
The Royal Enfield Bullet I bought last October is sitting in the garage and I’m indoors fantasising about a bygone age. I’ve just finished reading Rogue Male, a Boys’ Own adventure with an illustrated cover designed to feed the imagination, like the ones they had on motorcycle magazines back in the 1950s. The book’s fictional hero, Robert Thorndyke, is pursued by a deadly foreign agent across pre-war Europe before going to ground in Dorset, not too far from where I live. In the mother of all lockdowns, he digs in and
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