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Source ISBN: 9780007594269
Ebook Edition © February 2015 ISBN: 9780007594283
Version: 2015-12-23
For Peter.
A rock on the Rock.
Contents
Thursday, 8 October 1987
Hundreds of feet below where Colin Bygate sat on a moss-covered rock, the Atlantic was eating away the coast. Huge surges rolled in to fling up their spray as they hit the cliff-base, then sprang back to collide with the next incoming wave and send a line of water skyward. The sinking sun gave the brilliant white of