"Evans,.Linda.-.Far.Edge.Of.Darkness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Evans Linda)

overly eager. Her grip tightened down again on the steering wheel.
Bartlett had set her up like the pro he was. And she'd walked right
into his arms. Must be laughing himself sick, wherever he was by
now. At the rate she was going, maybe life in the T. Zone would be
a change for the better.

"Enough! First, you confront those tenured fat cats. Then, if they're
stubborn, find a lawyer who works cheap and sue them."

Cora Johnson's granddaughter was not a quitter.

The car finally chugged the last few yards to the crest of the hill,
slipping gears and wheezing like a foundered racehorse. Sibyl took
the VW out of gear to coast downhill in the vain hope her
transmission might last just a few hundred miles more. A brilliant
flash lit the whole interior of her car with a hellish pink glow. All she
could see was after image. Sibyl swore, hastily shifting into first
gearЧin case she had to do some quick maneuvering around a
downed treeЧthen tapped the brakes until she could see.

There was a hole in front of her.

Not in the road.

In the air.

Sibyl stood on the brakes. Nuggie groaned a protest and fishtailed
on the dusty road. The car lurched. She threw in the clutch to keep
the engine running. Then she just stared, while the bottom fell out
of her viscera and tried to crawl back up the hill without her.

A ragged puncture of brilliant white light was opening out of thin air.
It was so bright she couldn't see anything: not through it, not
around it, not beyond. Enormous columns of pink lightning crashed
on all sides, arcing outward to strike the road, the trees, the
cloudsЧ

"Oh, My God . . ."

It widened, a doorway into hell.

"Ohmighod . . ."

Her hand slipped on the gear shift. She fumbled with clutch and
accelerator, hunted for reverse by feel. Like a rabbit trapped in a
glare of headlights, Sibyl couldn't look away. The rupture splitting
open in front of her gaped wider than her house. Where it touched
the ground, there wasn't any ground. Pink lightning sizzled out of it.
The whole world sizzled, while Nuggie's gears groaned and
something inside the engine made a sickening, snapping sound.