![]() As he approaches, he sees Trey with two other guys sitting on the porch. He walks towards Martel's house and sees a gunmetal Range Rover in the driveway. Jus gets off the bus and recognizes the irony in returning to his neighborhood when he wanted desperately to escape from it in the past. ![]() Despite that, he stays on the bus, because he is tired of feeling so alone. He knows that his mom would not be happy with him if she knew where he was headed. Rivers lost his job and now Manny's parents are relocating-cause him to seek out someone new to talk to, someone who might understand how he feels. ![]() His recent feelings of hopelessness-coupled with the fact that Mr. Quan's words from their meeting in juvie -"there's no escaping the Black Man's Curse"-have been stuck in his head (157). In Chapter 19, Jus is headed back to his old neighborhood to talk to Martel, the leader of the Black Jihad. ![]()
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Eventually they started flying in formation 15 kft below the U-2, trying to block the camera’s field of view. ![]() They routinely scrambled dozens of fighters which desperately tried but to no effect. However, although the Soviets could see the plane, they did not initially have any missiles or fighters which could get up there. Through about 30 CIA-flown overflights of the Soviet Union over 4 years in the late 50’s (until Gary Powers‘ crash in 1960) Eisenhower finally got real information on the (non-existent) “bomber gap.” The designers thought that the U-2’s 70,000 feet altitude would prevent even tracking by Soviet radar, but this was not the case. The U-2 holds a very important place in Cold War history. Ben Rich was there for all of these, first as right hand man of the famous, cantankerous Kelly Johnson and later as his successor. The Skunk Works was the semi-independent division of Lockheed which developed (among other planes) the U-2 and SR-71 spyplanes and the F-117 stealth fighter. ![]() ![]() ![]() They don’t discuss the subject again until their exit date looms and they’re both still in good health - although they’ve blown all their cash. He places a box containing lethal pills on the top shelf of their fridge. He suggests they end their lives on Kay’s 80th birthday. ![]() Cyril, a GP, has seen enough geriatric patients to conclude that few people maintain good physical and mental health beyond their seventies. ![]() Slugging back sherry, the former nurse is furious that her abiding memory of her once erudite and dapper dad will be a vision of him ‘naked below the waist, purple with rage and covered in faeces’. ![]() We meet them in their early fifties as they return home after Kay’s father’s funeral. The characters Shriver charges with assessing the options are Cyril and Kay Wilkinson. 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