They are rare, but they do exist, and you can only call them adventurers. Rudi was one; it was the excitement, the mischief, that he lived for, more than the reward; the game not the prize. Mad as hatters, mark you, and as dangerous as sharks – they are not to be judged by the standards of yellow-bellies like me. Flashy don’t want anything to do with ‘em, but he knows how their minds work.
Royal Flash, p.219, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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