Denis Lehane: My unlikely role in alien disaster film

I had a mighty stroke of good luck last week, indeed it was such good fortune that it almost embarrasses me to tell you about it.

It all started last Wednesday morning, when I was in my yard trimming the dirty tail of a weanling bull. And if truth be told, ’twas a right dirty tail.

Anyhow, what should arrive into the yard only a big black Limousine.