Midnight Runner - Jack Higgins [99]
And then they were close, there were small waves, and he landed into the wind. They bounced across the waves and settled.
"Come on," he ordered, and scrambled out of his seat, made it to the door, and opened it. He moved to the luggage compartment, got the life raft, and tossed it out. It started to inflate automatically.
He turned to call her again and saw her leaning out of the cockpit and picking up Rupert Dauncey's Walther, which had slid along the side because of the incline of the plane.
"I told you I'd see you in hell," she cried.
As Dillon ducked, she fired wildly. The round plucked at his right sleeve, and he flung himself out of the door into water of mind-numbing coldness and struck out, grabbing for the raft's line. He hung on and turned. The Eagle had tilted more now, the tail up, the port wing under the water.
She was still there in the cockpit, screaming at him, one hand gripping the open quarter-light, and then the tail lifted high and the Eagle simply slipped beneath the surface.
He made it to the life raft and hauled himself inside. There were two paddles and a couple of survival boxes he didn't bother to open. He slid the paddles through the oarlocks, no other emotion left in him except a stubborn need to survive.
He started to row toward the shore, distant in the mist and rain. It was a long way off, but not as far as Kate Rashid had gone.
Table of Contents
IN THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1
WASHINGTON LONDON
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
LONDON OXFORD HAZAR
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
HAZAR
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
OXFORD LONDON
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
LONDON BOSTON WASHINGTON LONDON
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
HAZAR
Chapter 15
LONDON DAUNCEY PLACE
Chapter 16
Table of Contents
IN THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1
WASHINGTON LONDON
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
LONDON OXFORD HAZAR
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
HAZAR
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
OXFORD LONDON
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
LONDON BOSTON WASHINGTON LONDON
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
HAZAR
Chapter 15
LONDON DAUNCEY PLACE
Chapter 16