His minions, bracing for a police raid, pass the time conspiring, complaining, flirting with the boss's mistress and dabbling in interior decoration.
Jim is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious "Treasure Planet".
Since then, at least 10,000 people have been killed and the number of air raids has passed 15,000.
This apparition of him stood in the Old Academy in Munich and then in the Bavarian National Museum until it was blown apart in a Second World War bombing raid, when he passed at last out of history's archives and into the consolations of literature.
Rather than act on his request, Republican leaders advised him to raid unspent money passed two years ago to combat Ebola.
The Turks, the Persians and the British came to know the men of the marshes through their raids on passing caravans and regiments and trains.
After around 1200 the castle declined in importance: it was poorly situated, the threat of Danish raids had now passed, and so the nearby manor of Burstwick became the new administrative centre for the lordship instead.
Richard von Frankenberg told the story of an industrialist who, on leaving Stuttgart after a heavy air raid in the late autumn of 1944, passed on the road a Volkswagen parked high on the city's periphery where its houses and industries were spread out below as in an amphitheater.
May was the first month that passed without a raid since January but the Japanese returned on four consecutive days in June, with three of these raids consisting of 18 to 20 fighters and 27 bombers.
Only 18 months passed between the raid on the compound and the release of Zero Dark Thirty, a slickly produced piece of torture-porn propaganda mythologising its events.
