It hit him in the side like a charging bull, punched the air out of his lungs, knocked the sense out of his head, sucked him in and down into the cold darkness…
From chapter one, “The End,” of Joe Abercrombie’s novel, “The Blade Itself,”:
“It hit him in the side like a charging bull, punched the air out of his lungs, knocked the sense out of his head, sucked him in and down into the cold darkness…”
I distinctly heard the A-Team theme in my head as I read this very similar passage from the last chapter of “The Last Argument of Kings.”
C’mon Joe…