But the incidents that tormented him were the deaths of two friends, one of whom died in the most dreadful of circumstances, having lost three of his limbs.
Most dreadful of all, at the human level, he never knew that everything he confided to Philby in the bars of London's clubland, went straight back to Sonny's spymasters in Moscow.
Perhaps he had simply gone home, at last, to his storied city of Mumbai, on the country's other coast, that city which was neither of the north nor of the south but a frontierville, the greatest, most wondrous, and most dreadful of all such places, the megalopolis of the borderlands, the place of in-between.
"He acts as an assassin armed with the most dreadful of mischiefs, and in executing his diabolical purposes, involves the innocent and the guilty in the same ruin". Arson is a mini declaration of war against a whole community, which is why the cherished symbols of schools, churches, mosques and synagogues are so often targets.
The report found that even as the family members, many of them parents stricken with the loss of their children, were plunged into the most dreadful of nightmares, Wright was meeting his police federation in a Sheffield restaurant to prepare "a defence" and "a rock-solid story".
Three days later, Kremer described the mass gassing of emaciated prisoners, nicknamed Muslims: September 5 , 1942 In the morning attended a special action from the women's concentration camp (Muslims); the most dreadful of horrors.
"It indicated," he says, "the most dreadful lack of emotion, lack of sentiment, lack of true feeling.
"One of the most dreadful aspects of this is that it is allowing members of a grouping that once did so much to damage freedom of expression in Peru to now pose as defenders of it," he said, highlighting the potential advantages it could bring to Keiko Fujimori's campaign.
Mr. Frankenheimer shrugged it off as one of the most dreadful experiences of his career.
Here is the most dreadful disappearance of all: destruction of the self under torture.
"This is one of the most dreadful sets of bells in France," said one expert, Hervé Gouriou.
