15
There was frantic activity on the other side of the river.
It had been like this all day. What had begun as a quick patch-up operation to prevent the dead advancing any further along St Katharine’s Way had morphed into something else entirely. The ease with which the encroaching bodies had initially been repelled had instilled Piotr with confidence, and the repair job had turned into another land-grab. Harjinder, who jostled with Paul Duggan and Chapman for the unadvertised position of his deputy, had convinced him to do it. He’d been studying the area and had explained that, by continuing further along St Katharine’s Way then clearing a similar length stretch of Mews Street to the north, as far as Thomas More Street to the east, a whole swathe of prime real estate could be snatched b
