Devil's Peak

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Brian Ball. Devil's Peak

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CHAPTER 1

Jerry Howard knew he’d been the worst kind of fool when he saw the first black clouds screaming in from the northwest to blot out the High Peak.

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“Fall, did you?” called Raybould. “We get a lot of broken legs. Those buggers who do the climbing. You’d think they’d know what they were about, what with ropes and helmets and that. But they’re always falling off. We buried one over Christmas.”

Jerry’s heart lurched. He was back on the face momentarily, sick with the realisation that the rock jug had been knocked off and that he’d committed himself to going up. He saw Brenda’s thin smile. She had ungenerous but pretty red lips turned both up and down in an expression that was between a snarl and a look of amusement: Then she turned away and began tracing the pattern along the edge of the brass scuttle.

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