Sacred Games - pg. 7

There was an eight-foot wall around the whole complex, of the same reddish brown brick as the station house and the zonal headquarters. Both buildings were two storeys high, with identical red-tiled roofs and oval-topped windows. There was a promise in the grim arches, in the thickness of the walls and the uncompromising weight if the facades, there was the reassurance of bulky power, and so law and order.