"A sutle change had come over Julian Wilde--a sense of menace and desperation, of complete detachment from normal human values, Watching him, Durell felt a faint shiver deep inside himself. There was something different about Wilde. His British manner rang untrue, oddly out of key. All at once, Durell flet as if he had invited an alien danger into the room that had changed the color of the atmosphere and tinged the day with weird and unparalleled menace."

1961.