As The Crow Flies Quotes

“It had been an early start. Dawn and dusk had always been the best times to catch pike but these days it was a rare occasion when he got out of bed much before 9.00am at the weekend. This morning his alarm had gone off at 5.00am. It was still dark. He had made a thermos flask of coffee and had stopped at the petrol station to get some sandwiches and chocolate. He had put his fishing tackle in the car the night before and had arrived at Gold Corner Pumping Station before sunrise.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“You know he was dealing drugs?’ asked Hunter. ‘Yes, small time, I’m told.’ ‘I wonder whether that could be related though, if he was murdered, that is?’ ‘It’s certainly one line of enquiry but we have several at the moment and, as I say, I have no real evidence that he was murdered. All I have is the knowledge that his knot wouldn’t just untie itself.’ Hunter agreed to”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“Very few people had understood his decision to leave the Metropolitan Police and join the Avon and Somerset force but Nick Dixon had never regretted it for a minute. Walking along the base of the cliffs at Brean Down on a gloriously sunny morning in early autumn, he was reminded more than ever that it had been the right decision. There was not a soul around, the tide was out and the wet sand glistened in the low morning sun.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“About the Author Prologue As the Crow Flies; E7 6c 130 ft; A direct finish to the classic Crow (E3 5c/6a***).”
― Damien Boyd, As the Crow Flies

“We always used to use a reef knot with a half hitch either side. The more you pull on it, the tighter it gets. If he’d abseiled over High Rock then there is no way that knot could or should have come undone.’ ‘Exactly,”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“the witnesses shot a short section of video”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“Friend 2 low down in the flared crack and an RP2 higher up, the last before the crux twenty feet above. He was determined that this would be a clean first ascent. The route offered a long fall onto precious little gear but there”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies

“Dixon never understood why crematoriums all looked the same. He had been to any number of funerals over the years and Weston-super-Mare crematorium was just like any other.”
― Damien Boyd, As The Crow Flies