Shattered Icon by Bill Napier

Author:Bill Napier [Napier, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

'I want out of here,' said Zola, tense and tight-lipped. I wasn't sure whether she was referring to the car, the city or the island.

'They were just fooling around,' Dalton said.

Debbie seemed to be driving purposefully. 'Where are we heading?' I asked.

'The Blue Mountains. I've booked us into a hotel. It's called Moonlight Chalets and it's just past a place called World's End.'

'Why there?'

'I read in Hello magazine that Mick Jagger uses it as a hideaway.'

'That's a recommendation?'

'Find World's End on the map if you can, Harry. If Mick Jagger can use it as a hideaway, so can we. It's nowhere.'

'So, you're from Jamaica, Dalton?' I asked.

'Actually Birmingham.'

The transition from bustling city to isolated mountain was surprisingly abrupt. There was a busy square, queues of people at bus stops, and then suddenly just a single-track potholed road rising steeply towards the Blue Mountains. Within ten minutes we were into Maroon territory; we could have been a million miles from anywhere. The descendants of escaped slaves looked at us morosely as we drove past their shacks.

The road steepened even more. At first there were low parapets, but even these eventually vanished. Debbie took us round hairpin bends with no telling what was coming in the opposite direction. Here and there, boulders were strewn over the road, the end results of heavy rain and landslides. I sat beside her with sweaty palms and a jaw painful with tension, while she took the wheels to within inches of thousand-foot drops. There was dead silence in the back of the car. Near the summit we ran into thick cloud and Debbie used headlights. At least now I couldn't see what lay beyond the edge of the road. Finally, out of the mist, as if from a Dracula movie, there emerged tall gateposts with a notice saying: Moonlight Chalets. It seemed about as remote, and hopefully as safe, as any place on the island.

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