Like her role model Jim Hawkins she values independence, but Hawkins is thrust into real danger — facing murderous drunk pirates who fight to kill — and his resolute independence saves him from death.
But getting dangerous, murderous pervs paranoid is worth it, right?
It is not enough, then, to blame Russian and Chinese vetoes at the Security Council or even the murderous Assad regime for the danger that is gripping the region right now — even if they deserve much of the blame.
The tale of the Gibbons girls is one of sibling rivalry that seemed in danger of turning murderous, featuring a baffling childhood pact of silence that propelled them, via educational exclusion, to become teenage outcasts who responded to dashed literary ambitions and bungled sexual adventures with a life of petty crime that would lead them ultimately to Broadmoor.
In the case of these orders, there is the large and lurking idea that immigrants in general are dangerous, even murderous threats—stealing jobs, stealing lives, the explanation for all that is wrong and that if that danger is not manifest today, it will be tomorrow.
"Crime is going down," he says in a forthcoming Radio 4 documentary, "but you wouldn't know that from looking at national media because we still cover the same number of crimes, the same number of murderous trials, so there is a danger that we are not reflecting the world".
At the same time there's a constant undercurrent of danger: a passing face looks murderous; police fish a corpse from the river; a pier explodes in billows of dark smoke.
Olmert is fighting a war on two fronts — in Gaza against Hamas and in Lebanon against a large and sophisticated Hezbollah militia — and it is entirely possible, if sense and diplomacy do not quickly intercede, that the region, already inflamed by the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq and the murderous insurgency that has followed, will face a danger level not seen in decades.
In the end it shows how Mamah and Frank faced dangers more deep-seated than a murderous accident of fate.
Nigeria is on the list not because there is no danger of persecution in that state – the murderous statistics of Boko Haram, the group Muazu feared, speak for themselves – but because an asylum claimant must show they cannot seek state protection and cannot relocate internally before they can succeed in obtaining international protection.
