The men of his gang trudging ahead of him led Hendrick to his station,and here under a bare electric bulb waited for the white shift boss, aburly Afrikaner flanked by his two boss-boys. He had an inkling of what it might be. A boat should have a name, Shasa thought. Thecrocodile arched its back, exploding out of the water, drenching Blaineand covering Centaine in a breaking wave of foam.
Halfway up the beach path to the factory Centaine Courtney waited forhim. Their relationshipover the two years since the Berlin Olympics had been storm and sunnyweather alternating so rapidly They would makeDrake's Farm their own citadel. And it was seventy miles to the river,with no guarantee that the pursuers would honour the border and notpursue them across.
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