' The Longest Night ' & ' Crossing the Rubicon ': The Original Map Illustrated and Uncut Final Volume (Armageddon's Song) by Andy Farman

Author:Andy Farman [Farman, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Andy Farman
Published: 2014-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Indian Ocean: 0952hrs.

They had been at the mercy of the wind and currents, drifting ever further towards that wild ocean with no restraining shoreline worth mentioning.

Figures clinging to the mattress on a wave tossed sea, far from land. Each was wondering who would be lost next and to what, the sharks or hyperthermia.

There had been plenty of bodies, floating face down in the water, dead submariners from the diesel electric vessel HMAS Hooper, but the sharks dragged those off and still returned for more.

They were oceanic White Tips and the largely lifeless deep water oceans were their highway from one coast to the next.

Blood leaking from Derek Penman’s head wound had probably attracted them in the first place but the petty officer had not been their first victim.

Four hours after Commander Hollis had spotted the first shark, Midshipman Chloe Ennis let out an involuntary squeal when something brushed her leg and a second later Leading Seaman Brown was snatched away. Derek Penman died from hyperthermia two hours later, his body drifting away before sharks found it. The dead are at least silent when sharks consume them.

Dawn had arisen but the day brought no respite, just more horrors. They had seen a fin circling them. As it grew bolder it closed in and the survivors collective splashing had scared it away, but it did not leave. More fins appeared and five more times they splashed and shouted but with each occasion the survivors were a little more tired, the splashing less frightening, and LS Craig Devonshire had died when the sharks were just not frightened anymore.

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