Black Rain

"Tokyo was hot that night. The guy the cops were looking for was an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard. The girl was blonde; a blonde to make a Bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She gave him a look which should have stuck at least four inches out of his back. In the bar, there was a sad fellow on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream..."

Oh! Sorry - got carried away. Actually, this was the Homebase car park in Milton Keynes, not Tokyo.

*with apologies to Raymond Chandler.