Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: shipwrecks, Widowers, Psychological fiction, Journalists, Thrillers, Fiction - Espionage, Horror, ebook, Aircraft accidents, Fiction, etc, dean_koontz, Suspense fiction, Thriller, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, Reporters and reporting, Media Tie-In - General, Survival after airplane accidents, Media Tie-In, DeanKoontz
ISBN: 9780553582949
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2000-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

SANTORELLI: Pull!

BLANE: Oh, wow.

SANTORELLI: Mother of God

BLANE: Oh, yeah.

SANTORELLI: No.

BLANE: (childlike excitement) Oh, yeah.

SANTORELLI: Susan.

BLANE: Now. Look.

Santorelli begins to scream.

BLANE: Cool.

Santorelli's scream is three and a half seconds long, lasting to the end of the recording, which is terminated by impact.

Wind swept the meadow grass. The sky was swollen with a waiting deluge. Nature was in a cleansing mood.

Joe folded the three sheets of paper. He tucked them into a jacket pocket.

For a while he couldn't speak.

Distant lightning. Thunder. Clouds in motion.

Finally, gazing into the crater, Joe said, “Santorelli's last word was a name.”

“Susan.”

“Who is she?”

“His wife.”

“I thought so.”

At the end, no more entreaties to God, no more pleas for divine mercy. At the end, a bleak acceptance. A name said lovingly, with regret and terrible longing but perhaps also with a measure of hope. And in the mind's eye not the cruel earth hurtling nearer or the darkness after, but a cherished face.

Again, for a while, Joe could not speak.

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