“Giant squids are pretty alien,” I said. “Not to another giant squid,” said Beverley. - Ben Aaronovitch

We headed off to do some community outreach. This involves meeting people, listening to their stories and memorizing their names and faces in case you have to come back and arrest them at a later date.

Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing is they do.

With a rich history like that there was nothing to be done except flatten it and replace it with a shopping arcade designed in the who-the-fuck-cares school of retail architecture. The result was a two-story warehouse with a flat roof designed to maximise floor space and nothing else.