title: View from the Middle of the Road, Revised Edition
author:  Lucinda J. Clark 
description: "View From the Middle of the Road is lovely. The poems are sweet and gentle and thought provoking" -- <i>Jennifer Fox, McDowell News, August 18,2004</i>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clark's poetry gently grabs hold of you and asks you to look at your world with new eyes! --<i>Jefferey Bowen, USA Book News, September 2004</i>
zlib_text: **Bond 6 - Dr. No**
  
   **Bond 6 - Dr. No**
  
  Bond 6 - Dr. No Fleming, Ian
  
   **Bond 6 - Dr. No**
  
   **I**
  
  I HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR
  
  punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue
  Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets
  and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle.
  
  Apart from the background noise of the insects, the wide empty street was
  quiet. The wealthy owners of the big, withdrawn houses-the bank managers,
  company directors and top civil servants-had been home since five o'clock and
  they would be discussing the day with their wives or taking a shower and
  changing their clothes. In half an hour the street would come to life again
  with the cocktail traffic, but now this very superior half mile of 'Rich
  Road', as it was known to the tradesmen of Kingston, held nothing but the
  suspense of an empty stage and the heavy perfume of night-scented jasmine.
  
  Richmond Road is the 'best' road in all Jamaica. It 