Counterpoint (58 page)
Authors: John Day
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Naked, but clean, he pulled the light
weight craft into the water, flopped in and switched on the
electric outboard. He laid out flat, head to the bows, feet either
side of the tiller so he could watch the island and all its
horrors, get smaller, as he sailed away.
Ten kilometres from land, the motor
turned extremely slowly and stopped as the battery had used up all
its charge. Max was hardly conscious as he realised that his
journey was at an end. He reckoned at 200km/hr. it would take just
three minutes for the pyroclastic cloud to reach him, when the
volcano blew. His body temperature would go from 28°C to 500°C in a
few hundredths of a second.
As paranoia and despair set in, Max
believed there was no reason why Sam would bother to send a
helicopter to get him, there would be no remains to find. There was
no future for earth anyway…
Max did not hear the faint sound of an
approaching engine, if he had, he might have wondered, was it a
boat or plane, was it sent by Sam?
Was it the team from America, sent to
survey the volcano?
Whoever it was, would they see the
small black dingy bobbing in the darkness and the white naked body
inside?
Would they even be in time, to save
Max’s life?
The end of the
1st book.
Now read Fire
Ice, the 2nd book in the series, it is available now!
Best regards,
Max and Carla
Back soon ………
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