He crossed the finish line well ahead of the other athletes. The crowd cheered, a distant roar, but he didn’t stop.

In his mind, her voice was pleading, begging: “Don’t let me die here!”

Muscles pumping, heart racing, he sprinted on, the ghosts of his past hard on his heels.

Bill lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, which will become the capital of his world empire when he completes his anti-matter bomb. But first lunch.