Worlds end

页数:0

价格:0.00

isbn号码:9780688034252

具体描述

THe OLD MeRCeDeS shuddered over the muddy washboard, clinging

to the levee s spine. Wind lashed the willows and cottonwoods on both

sides, and thunder rolled out over land that spread low and wild and

rank toward the Gulf of Mexico. Michael Duran gripped the wheel,

braking, staring into the curtain of water. He was oppressed by the

closeness of the air that made even breathing a kind of work. Here

firm ground seemed an affront to nature. Rain enhanced the flood of

the Mississippi, free at last after a thousand miles of levees, pushing

its fingers out through aeons of accumulated silt to join with the sea.