His novel was called "The Olive Branch". It was a sort of futuristic Cold War thriller. He had written it more than three decades ago when he was a young Turk, full of ambitions and principles and politics. But, like many a first novel, the manuscript had been abandoned, left to gather dust. Until now. Now he has time on his hands. He'll tidy up the manuscript and save it on his computer. He'll preserve it. But only for the sake of posterity, he argues...