No Comebacks And Other Stories

NO COMEBACKS
1. How wealthy was Mark Sanderson? Mark Sanderson, was a very wealthy man, he was a millionaire.
2. Complete the blanks in the following sentence: Mark Sanderson was thirty-nine years old, rich, famous and bored.
3. Sanderson met a woman at a party. Describe this woman. This woman was 30 years old, beautiful and tall. When Sanderson first saw her, was wearing a white dress. Shedidn’t have any jewellery or make-up.
4. Why had Sanderson never seen this woman before? Because she was living in Spain
5. What did Sanderson say to Angela on their last evening before? He wanted her to marry with him. He told her that she have to divorce husband and get marry with him.
6. Why did Angela say she had to stay with her husband? Angela said that her husband needed her.
7. Completethe following: “What Marks wants, Marks gets”.
8. Sanderson paid a detective to find out about Angela and her husband.
a) Where did Angela and her husband live? In Spain, Valencia, Costa Blanca
b) What town was the villa near? It was near to Ondara
c) What did Angela do every afternoon? She go to the beach
d) What did her husband do in the afternoon? He stays in at the villa
9. Sandersonwent to visit an author.
a) What had this author write a book about? The book was about mercenaries in Africa
b) Why did Mark offer this author $100? Because he wanted to find someone called Mr. Huges
10. Why did Sanderson go to a bar in Earls Court? To meet Mr. Huges
11. What did Sanderson tell Hughes he wanted done? He wanted to kill a man.
12. Hughes wrote a word on a piece of paper and gaveit to Sanderson.
a) What was the word on the paper? strip
b) Why did Sanderson feel sick? Because Huges had a gun
c) What had Hughes wanted to find out? If Sanderson had a microphone or a recorder.
13. What did Sanderson want Hughes to give him? The name of a mercenary
14. How much did Sanderson offer to pay Hughes:
a) That night? 1000£
b) After Sanderson was given what he wanted? Thesame quantity
15. A week later, Sanderson got a message by phone.
a) Where was he when he got the message? In the bar Of Earls Court
b) What city was he to go? To Paris
c) Where was he to go in that city? To a café in the Rue Miollin
d) When was he to be there? In Monday at the evening
e) What was he to read? The newspaper Le Figaro
f) How much money was he to take with him? 5000£
16.Sanderson gave Calvi a photograph.
a) What was on the back of the photograph? The situation of the villa where were living Angela and her husband
b) When was the job to be done? At the afternoon
c) Why was the job to be done at that time? Because everyone would be having a siesta
17. What did Sanderson say there must not be? Any comebacks
18. How did Calvi hide a pistol and a silencer? Into aempty book
19. Why did he book two rooms at the Hotel Metropol and then say that Señor Calvi could not join him? Because he didn’t want to anyone know that he was in spain
20. Where was the Hotel Metropol? In Valencia
21. Why did Calvi steal a car from a businessman taking a flight to Madrid? If Calvi take his own car, the police would take him earlier.
22. Where did Calvi have lunch? In Ondara23. The job was easier than Calvi thought.
a) In what way had the weather helped the job?
b) In what way had the weather made sure “There'll be no comebacks?”
c) Explain the title of his story.


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1. Describe the lorry wich Liam Clarke was driving.
2. “Your lorry won't move far” said the customs officer.
a) Where was Liam's lorry?
b) Why would it not move veryfar?
c) Where did Liam stay for the night?
3. What happened as the mechanic was finishing the repair to Liam's lorry?
4. Describe the lorry Murphy and Brendan were waiting for.
5. How many bottles of brandy were in this lorry?
6. A black Ford Granada followed Liam's Granada?
a) Who was in the Ford Granada?
b) Why were they following Liam's lorry?
7. Describe how Murphy and Brendan stopped...