River of Death
“Not that I require it. Why do you ask?''If anything happens to you it would be nice to know where we are.''You better pray nothing happens to me. Without me, you're finished.'Smith said into Hamilton's ear: 'You have to antagonise him? You have to be so arrogant? You have to provoke him?'Hamilton looked at him, his face cold. 'I don't have to. But it's a pleasure.'Romono airstrip, like Romono itself, looked, as it always did, a miasmic horror. The DC 3 and the helicopter-cum-hovercraft arrived ...on the strip within minutes of each other. The helicopter's rotor had hardly stopped when a small fuel tanker moved out towards it.The passengers disembarked from the DC 3 and looked around them. Their expressions ranged from the incredulous to the appalled.Smith contented himself with saying merely: 'Good God!''I don't believe it,' Heffner said. 'What a stinking, nauseating dump. Jesus, Hamilton, is this the best you could do for us?''What are you complaining about?' Hamilton pointed to the tin shed which constituted both the arrival and departure terminals.MoreLess
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