Tuesday

By any reasonable measure, Daniel Feeld is a successful writer. Last year he earned nearly half a million pounds, and his latest television series, titled Karaoke, is currently in production. But he is not a well man and, so far, the doctors have failed to discover the cause of the pain in his guts. As he lies in the X-ray room, he notices that the medical staff seem to be mouthing the words of his latest script. It's probably due to the sedatives. But later, on the street, the same thing happens again and, come to think of it, that announcer on the radio earlier this morning ...That evening, Daniel is having dinner with Anna, the producer of his new series, in the same brasserie used a few weeks earlier for a location shoot, when a young man and woman enter and sit at a distant table. Oblivious of Anna's attempts to warn him that the series director, Nick Balmer, is planning to change key scenes in the script, Daniel is intent on watching the newcomers' lips. He can tell that they are