In Pursuit of Platinum-The Shocking Secret of World War II by Vic Robbie

Author:Vic Robbie
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Thriller
Publisher: Principium Press
Published: 2012-08-26T05:00:00+00:00

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BEN watched as Sebastian led Alena and Freddie along the track occasionally catching a glimpse of their worried faces reflected in the light of the lantern. Sebastian headed for a safe place a hundred yards away, a shelf in the rock face, and made them sit there before coming back for him.

‘M’sieu,’ said Sebastian pushing his head through the open window. ‘Are you sure you want to do this? One mistake and puff.’ He exaggerated the word with a flick of his fingers. ‘You’ll be gone.’

Sebastian didn’t need an answer; the set of his face told him all he needed to know.

‘Very well, follow my lead and imagine I’m the mascot on the bonnet. If I move a centimetre right or left you must steer that much as well.’

With the lantern held in his right hand high above his head, Sebastian rested his left hand on the bonnet of the Bentley as if steering the car.

It was slow.

He knew he shouldn’t take his eyes off Sebastian but he couldn’t stop himself from snatching glances down the track to where Alena and Freddie sat although now he couldn’t determine anything other than dark shapes huddled together.

After about twenty yards Sebastian slammed his hand down hard on the bonnet – the signal for him to stop – and went off testing the track and getting down on his knees to peer at the earth beneath him. Sebastian returned shaking his head and muttering something incomprehensible. Again they set off moving forward inch by inch. It was so slow he wanted to put his foot down and roar through the trouble believing their impetus would carry them forward, although he was aware that could only lead to disaster.

The frustration and the strain were beginning to tell, and his head and eyes hurt as if someone had taken an axe and put a parting in his brain. Because of a lapse in concentration he wandered a fraction off Sebastian’s route and heard a warning shout. Now the car wouldn’t respond to the wheel and whichever way he turned it nothing happened. Thinking he needed to accelerate more, he pushed his foot down on the accelerator. The car shuddered, the wheels spinning and scoring a deep groove in the gravel, and with a throaty roar it took off showering stones in its wake and launching myriad sparks like tiny stars into the night sky.

‘Stop, for Christ’s sake, stop,’ Sebastian shouted, slamming a hand down on the bonnet as he hung on for dear life.

A variety of sounds assailed him – the screams of Alena and Freddie and an angry grating noise. They started to slip sideways and he realised the earth beneath them was falling away. Again, he tried turning the wheel and pulled on the handbrake but nothing could stop the Bentley’s inexorable slide towards the drop.

Almost as soon as they’d started, it came to a juddering halt, tilting at a precarious angle, and he feared they had slipped off the edge of the track and that between them and the ground far below was only air.

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