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The engines of the long graceful yacht were turning over quietly, the exhaust bubbling glutinously, a thread of blue vapour rising astern.
Mr Big stood on the jetty and supervised the process of binding them together.
On the edge of the circle of bobbing heads and dead fish a few triangular fins were cutting fast through the water. More appeared as Bond watched. Once he saw a great snout come out of the water and smash down on something. The fins threw up spray as they flashed among the tidbits. Two black arms suddenly stuck up in the air and then disappeared. There were screams. Two or three pairs of arms started to flail the water towards the reef. One man stopped to bang the water in front of him with the flat of his hand. Then his hands disappeared under the surface. Then he too began to scream and his
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Bond’s eyes narrowed and his breath became calmer as he watched the cruel sea for its decision.
splash of water cleared some blood away from the eyes. They were wide open, staring madly towards Bond.
But the great turnip head, the drawn-back mouth full of white teeth almost splitting it in half, was still alive.
Then the shark’s snout came right out of the water and it drove in towards the head, the lower curved jaw open so that light glinted on the teeth. There was a horrible grunting scrunch and a great swirl of water. Then silence. Bond’s dilated eyes went on staring at the brown stain that spread wider and wider across the sea.
The first tears since his childhood came into James Bond’s blue-grey eyes and ran down his drawn cheeks into the bloodstained sea.
‘You’re far the prettiest girl in the whole of Shark Bay.
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his mind he ran once more the gauntlet of dangers he had entered on his long chase after The Big Man and the fabulous treasure, and he lived again through the searing flashes of time when he had looked various deaths in the face.
