The sun was unusually strong as it streamed across Michael's face, waking him gently. There was a surreal stillness filling the room as Michael lay still, trying to work out which day it was.

Personnel departments, for example, need a few people to handle employees' gripes face-to-face, but form-filling and data entry can be handled more efficiently by specialists.

Most of the time, international extradition is a boring business involving a lot of dull form-filling, after which wrongdoers are taken back to face justice.