Скачать или смотреть AN OFFICIAL POSITION, Somerset Maugham, Narrated by James Gill

On the surface, Louis Remire is a genial, ruddy-faced fellow—healthy, good-natured, and the very picture of contentment. Yet behind the twinkle in his eye lies a chilling reality: this convicted wife-killer has found a second career as the executioner of French Guiana. Surrounded by convicts who loathe him, haunted by the fate of his predecessor, and lulled into a dangerous sense of happiness by fishing, rum, and his tidy little shack, Remire embodies the paradox of a man who insists he is ordinary, even good, while living at the edge of terror.

In An Official Position, Maugham masterfully contrasts jovial self-deception with the merciless truth of human cruelty. The story lingers like the shadow of the guillotine: is Louis Remire a victim of circumstance, or proof that no man escapes the justice he serves?