Roskov, Book 8, page 14
She came twenty seconds later, a groan as if she had died, before she turned over and flopped. Sheet pulled up over her, knee raised and hand under her chin, I gave Dominique a quiet ‘Shhhh.’
Dominique had been playing with herself and slowly undressing as she sat in a chair, and she waved me over, my moist cock grabbed and swallowed as if Dominique had not had sex in years.
As she moved up and down my shaft she fingered herself, too far down for me to reach so I massaged the big boobs, soon squirting into the back of her throat, a moan issued by her as she swallowed and kept going.
Leading her next door to her own room two minutes later, the least I could do was massage her before she slept, and she was asleep after twenty minutes. Sheet pulled over her, I checked the main door - lock on, I checked under the bed for intruders, and I left the joining door open.
Checking on Claudia, she was breathing evenly, so I headed to my own room, a shower needed, my cock still tingling.
After the shower I sat with a cup of tea, thinking about a great many things, not least how I could have sex with beautiful models and not be rich or famous with it – not be a target. It seemed like a contradiction in terms.
Chat show
I left the hotel at 10am with the same big black studio security guys, FBI in tow, wondering if my pager was working and that my phone was diligently tracking my movements.
But this was the opposite of anyone’s fears for George Orwell’s 1984, because I wanted to be tracked, very tracked, spied on and monitored carefully, my rights ignored.
At the studios, I had a coffee with the crew, into make-up half an hour later, my host turning up for a chat as he sat casual in jeans, and odd look for him, a chat about the new holiday village in Corsica; he wanted to invest.
I told him, ‘You keep being fair and even with me in interviews and you get an apartment at cost price, and it will treble in value on the day we open.’
It was fair to say that we had a deal as I handed him a list of topics for the chat show. He scanned them. ‘We focus on Northern Ireland mostly. Good, lot of Irish descendants in New York.’
Finally ready, audience sat having the comedian warm them up, and I walked out to a hidden spot, my host then doing his intro, a few politicians for him to criticise, plus an unseasonal storm to complain about.
Sat, cameras checked, audience prepped, and out I walked to a loud applause, my same old trademark grey suit on. Only this was a $500 Italian suit and not my usual $50 suit, yet I appeared the same.
Hands shaken, we sat, the applause fading.
‘So, how are you healing since we last spoke?’
‘At the hotel we met at, Lake Como in Italy, we were all swimming a few times a day, we had massages, so we recovered quickly.
‘This week just gone I was at my hotel in Corsica, so I got to swim and walk, and that helps. Still a few twinges, some sharp pains at night, but … it gets better day by day. Less so on long flights!’
‘We all ache after the damn transatlantic Red-Eye,’ he agreed. ‘And in Denmark you hosted the celebrations there, a reminder of the mass rescue of Jews from the Germans…’
‘In 1943 … the Danish Government got word that the occupying German Army would round up the Jews, which included my grandfather as his family, but the Danish Government tipped off the Jews and helped to organise the mass escape in small fishing boats across to Sweden.
‘So late at night in 1943, and in bad weather, the Jewish families boarded small boats with their luggage and … were probably very sick for the voyage. But they almost all made it, and the Swedish people welcomed them and provided shelter till after the war.
‘But the celebration we held was also about all those times since then … when innocent refugees have been rescued around the world, and there have been a great many small wars since 1945.
‘The UN has done a good job, and the US military has done a good job around the world, rescuing hostages and airlifting the innocent civilians from various war zones.
‘So it was about more than just 1943, it was a metaphor for the rescue of the innocent, and to me it was important to invite the Germans along, something that the Jewish community in Denmark agreed with, as well as the Jews in Berlin -’
‘But your own newspapers criticised you…’
‘Some did, yes, but they never took an opinion poll of Jews first, and they twisted my words. I made it clear that I speak on behalf of myself and my immediate family only, but they ignored that.
‘I’m not Jewish and I don’t speak for any part of the Jewish community, and what’s important to me is reconciliation and the future, not dwelling in the past.’
‘And now you’re involved in the Northern Ireland peace talks…’
‘I met President Clinton at the celebrations in Denmark and he asked me to get involved with the mediation, and my Prime Minister also asked me to get involved, but I’m no diplomat or politician and I find it very odd that the two sides won’t talk to each other face to face.
‘The Protestants say that they won’t talk to gunmen with blood on their hands, which is just stupid, because those gunmen … they’re the ones we should be talking to … to stop further bloodshed.’
‘You met with the leadership of the IRA gunmen…’
‘I have met them recently, yes, and my friends at the Vatican have been in touch on my behalf, a hope for a temporary ceasefire-’
‘It’s on the news this morning, the Roskov Initiative Ceasefire.’
‘They named it after me?’ I puzzled.
‘Yeah.’
‘Well … the call for a ceasefire came from your president, the Pope, and finally from me, so I don’t claim any credit there. What I did do … is discuss jobs with the IRA and what I can do in the province, and … I made it clear that I’ll do things my way and … to hell with the old generation.
‘My concerns are the current generation of students and school leavers, young people looking for opportunities and jobs, and it’s all about jobs.
‘A hundred years ago, when the Titanic was being built in Belfast Docks, the local Protestants would not allow Catholics to have a job there, and … mass unemployment amongst the Catholics was a theme for decades, and it’s still an issue today.
‘In 1969 the troubles started simply because the Protestants were being mean to the Catholics and not allowing the local Catholics to get good jobs.
‘Most of the commentators here in the States get that aspect wrong, and think that it’s about a unified Ireland. It’s true that some of the Catholics and the gunmen want a unified Ireland, but the real issue was the restricted job opportunities and mass unemployment.
‘Here in America, in some places, you have towns split by black and white, the blacks living in poverty. Since the 1960s you’ve continued to see a bad attitude to blacks in some areas, which means a lack of jobs, which then means poverty and drugs and crime and … then crimes against the white folks.
‘That creates a vicious circle; no jobs, some poverty, poor housing, drugs and crime, attacks on the white folk, who then don’t want to give jobs to the blacks. But how do you break that cycle?
‘It’s the same in Northern Ireland, the Protestants being very racist towards the Catholics - no job assistance, hence poverty and anger and crime towards the oppressors.
‘And if a black American politician went to Northern Ireland, that person would not be welcome at all, I think that the Protestants would shun such a politician.
‘What the blacks here in America need to understand … is that the Catholics in Northern Ireland, they’re more black than you are, and they can tell you a thing or two about oppression.
‘Can you imagine a large company here in New York hanging out a sign that says “No black workers”?’
‘There’d be a riot.’
‘Yet in Northern Ireland … the Protestant-run businesses there do just that, to this day, they practise sectarian racism, and it has nothing to do with the British Army or London, the British Army is just stuck in the way and trying to keep the peace.’
‘Do you think that the British Army should withdraw?’ he posed.
‘They’d only do that when the bombs stop going off. Here in America, you don’t withdraw your police during a riot, you withdraw afterwards, when it’s quiet. To bring home our soldiers we need a few years of peace and quiet.
‘And trust me … there are plenty of power brokers in London who would love to be rid of Northern Ireland, and rid of the Protestants, just that they won’t admit it in polite company.
‘The problem is public opinion, and politicians trying to say: we’ve lost men killed in Vietnam so we must stay forever.’
‘Losing people is no reason to stay in a conflict, we learnt that.’
‘But British politicians fear … that the families of the dead soldiers will criticise them if they pull out the remaining soldiers given that sons were lost there, so therefore we should stay forever.’
‘Will this new ceasefire hold?’
‘I don’t know, and even if it doesn’t I’ll still help where I can. I’ve bought a batch of a thousand computers, which I’ll start delivering to schools and colleges in Northern Ireland very soon, and your government has computer teachers lined up, so has the EU, and I’ll find teachers in Britain and Southern Ireland … until such time as the schools and colleges there have enough suitable teachers.
‘I then plan to open a few businesses there myself, and I’m in talks with a few European companies about opening factories there, starting with a shipping repair company for Belfast Docks.
‘But I have already been warned that the Protestants would try and hijack that company and recruit just Protestants, so the recruitment will be handled by the European Union staff to ensure fair play.’
‘You’re paying for these computers yourself?’
‘I was, then I got told off for doing that, so some charity money will be used, plus your government wants to send some cash, and the European Union wants to be involved, so it won’t just come from my pocket.’
‘Nor should it. But what’s the route forwards there?’
‘People keep asking me that, as if I’m an elected official, when I think I’m just an actor and a model. I won’t be giving speeches and telling the politicians in Northern Ireland how to do anything, I’ll help in my own small way directly.
‘I have been advised … that … dealing with the politicians in Northern Ireland is way more painful than having your groin area waxed...’
The audience laughed.
‘…that the old men will sit with arms folded and stick to the old BS routine of heritage … and who has what rights, that God is on their side, and I was told that nothing will be achieved by talking to them.
‘My interest is the next generation, the school leavers, to help them find jobs, and I’d use my own money as venture capital in the province to fund new businesses there, starting straight away.
‘It has been suggested to me that someone should open a film studio there, to make local TV programmes and movies, and that I may be able to help with -’
‘You’re working with Spielberg at Amblin?’
‘Yes, on the new movie about the miracle baby, so they may have some advice for me regarding a small studio project. I also plan on sponsoring a novel writing contest each year, with a good cash prize, because the Irish produce a hell of a lot of good writers.
‘They also have a lot of good actors, so maybe a script writing contest would be good, there seems to be a lot of talent there. And that’s where I’ll focus my efforts, I won’t be trying to persuade the old politicians there to do anything – I’m no miracle worker.’
‘A few believe you are,’ he quipped, the audience laughing. ‘So you won’t be involved in the politics?’
‘I don’t see how I could be, and there are better people than me that can assist in the peace process.’
‘And you’re here in New York to do a walk-on with Jenny Patrick…’
‘The walk-on now involves the twins, Claudia and Dominique, and it spreads across three episodes. Jenny’s character got a job in a beauty products firm ten episodes back and I bump into her there - as myself with the twins, and she invites me to meet her friends.’
‘With disastrous consequences I feel…’
‘Probably, yes,’ I agreed as the audience laughed.
‘How’s the new holiday village in Corsica?’
‘We’re building a large lido for swimming, behind it two apartment blocks, then the rest of the valley will be for individual investors, a plot of land on a slope facing the sea to build a luxury villa on.
‘We figured we’d need around three million dollars of investment money, to add to our own money, but we were offered a hundred million very quickly.
‘Some of the villas at the start of the valley will be nice but not lavish, and up the hill they’ll get bigger and more lavish, some serious money involved, but the stipulation is that they’re available for rent – not to live in.
‘So ten people could go holiday there together and share the rental cost, a villa room each, a pool with a sunset view, a great beach to use, and we’re already attracting many European celebs and politicians. Did you … sunbathe naked?’
The audience laughed.
He glanced at the audience. ‘No, I … like to hide what I have, but we saw a naked couple.’
‘It’s France, so you have to expect to see the naked people walking around. And some naked horse riding.’
‘My daughter loved the horses, wants to go back.’
‘Next year there’ll be four new villas at the hotel, and the holiday village will be ready, a good quality restaurant to try.’
‘The thing I loved about Europe was that people recognised me but no one bothered me.’
‘I walk down the street in Denmark and Sweden and no one bothers me, but I can’t do that in Britain.’
‘The guy that shot dead your bodyguard, what was his gripe?’
‘He was suspected of being linked to the sex ring in my home town, his wife kicking him out for a quick divorce, the house sold, so … he was mad at me.
‘But he may have been guilty of just having the wrong friends, and that has happened in my home town, and it’s wrong – no one is guilty by association.
‘But this guy in the newspaper attacking me, he was linked directly to the sex ring -’
‘He committed suicide last night.’
‘He did? Oh. I would have preferred a trial, and to see where his evidence led – and who was assisting him.’
‘There are more out there?’
‘There are probably a hundred men still out there that were involved, and who knew something, and many of those men blame me personally for their stress – based on their fears of being caught.
‘But here’s the thing. If you fear getting caught … don’t rape and murder kids, eh.’
‘Damn right, and a stupid attitude for them to have. Will you be crime fighting more in the future?’
‘My charity is funding many investigative cases as we speak, one where a black man has been arrested for a rape and murder that we think he didn’t commit, we think a policeman did it.’
‘Jesus, they’re the ones we’re supposed to trust.’
‘A few bad apples, plus a large force of officers that close ranks and don’t report on their colleagues,’ I sighed out.
‘And in your home town you’re spending this charity money…’
‘Some of it, yes, because some came from British taxpayers and some from Europe. I’ve bought a women’s refuge that was closed, despite the law that says it should have been kept open, and I’ve bought an old apartment block and a rundown hotel, soon to be apartments for homeless people, and I’m building a new soft prison.
‘But the various elements are all linked, a social safety net, the women’s refuge, the shelters and apartments, the soft prison and rehab, a real life game of snakes and ladders.
‘A person might lose their job, then lose their home, then get into drugs, then get into crime to pay for the drugs, then end up sick or in prison.
‘So if we can catch them early enough we can stop the slide down the ladder, but we need to be able to cope with all types of people … as we find them on the streets, and some are in terrible condition as they live rough, druggies with AIDS.
‘The Thatcher Government allowed them to sleep in shop doorways, I’m trying to reverse that decision, and we now have multiple facilities in my home town, so that a person who we find on the streets gets slotted in where they need to be, not thrown in prison and sharing a cell with bad people.
‘And if someone cleans themselves up they get promoted, and they get a better room then an apartment, and we even provide them with work and free meals, so that they can work their way back up the ladder slowly and into a job and with their own place to stay.
‘But as we do that we analyse it and cost it out, and we show what it costs in my home town, so that the next government will see the national costs – and the cost savings of not having a drug addict break into a hundred homes before he gets stopped.’
‘We think of Britain as quaint and quiet…’
‘We have nice small towns and villages, old castles and some nice beaches, but we also have big cities with huge concrete apartment blocks that were built in the 1960s and are falling down.
‘Those blocks promote crime and poverty, and they all need to be brought down, proper houses built, and most studies show that a row of two-storey houses shoulder to shoulder in a street are best for neighbourly cooperation and for less crime, the best safety for kids playing.
‘High rise apartments don’t help poor people, neither do these poor wooden houses that you Americans like to build.’
‘They’re cheap,’ he scoffed. ‘That’s why.’
‘My home town is a giant experiment that I hope to replicate around Britain, and we’re analysing the local population in my home town, the age and affluence demographics, the ethnicity, the crime rate and job rate. Then we’ll be able to make a few accurate social statements.’
