Seven Mile Beach by Tom Gilling

Author:Tom Gilling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2008-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

There was, as Nick had anticipated, nothing in the story to justify the headline POLICE PROBE MISSING REPORTER LINK. If the nameless reporter was Sally then Flynn hadn’t told her about the hit-and-run. Nevertheless, Nick was glad to have got rid of his car.

He skimmed the next few pages. Perger had gone overboard, as Nick knew he would, but most of the material was old hat—a tawdry retelling of Danny’s life under the media spotlight. Had it been anyone but Danny, Nick would have been happy enough to play his part in the ritual cannibalising of a famous corpse, but now he was repelled. It was a pantomime of a human life and it made him cringe.

The Herald was more restrained in its coverage—the tabloids had always owned Danny Grogan—but restraint hadn’t stopped the broadsheet from sending a photographer to corner his grieving mother in the hospital carpark.

Before driving off Nick looked at himself in the rear-view mirror. His face had subtly changed, although Nick had done nothing but dye his hair black. By altering a single feature he seemed to have initiated a deeper kind of metamorphosis—as if his face, the face of Nick Carmody, was adjusting to suit his new identity. Or was it something else: that Nick was looking at himself, for the first time, from the outside? He remembered the shock he had always felt when listening to himself on the radio. What he heard then was not his own voice but the strident, toneless voice of a stranger. In the mirror he saw, for a fraction of a second, a face he didn’t recognise.

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