Depths by Mankell Henning

Author:Mankell Henning [Mankell Henning]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: english
ISBN: 9781407017532
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

CHAPTER 90

The next day he walked ten kilometres.

That took him over Bockskärsdjupet and as far as Hökbådan, where he set up camp.

He had intended to head straight for Halsskär, but a channel had opened up near Harstena and so he was forced to make a detour to the north. Hökbådan proved to be no more than a collection of bare rocks with no boathouses. Before darkness fell he managed to make a shelter of branches and moss over a crack in the rocks where he intended to spend the night. He made a fire and opened another tin of American meat. The wind was still no more than a gentle breeze when he eased himself into his sleeping bag. It had grown noticeably less cold during the day. He estimated the temperature at minus three degrees. When darkness fell and his fire died he lay listening to the sea. Was that open water he could hear lapping against the ice? Or would the thick ice stretch as far as Halsskär? He could not make up his mind what he could hear, whether it was the sea or the silence inside his head.

Several times he thought he could hear gunfire, first a distant thud and then a shock wave passing through the darkness.

Nobody knows where I am, he thought. In the middle of winter, in the cold world of the ice, I have found a hiding place that nobody could possibly imagine.

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