Chapter 5
The farther down the road they moved, the clearer they could see what lay ahead. Cars lined the road, just as Court had said—wrecks, from the look of it, some with the dead bodies of their former owners still inside. Smashed windshields reflected the last of the afternoon sun, which flickered off chrome fenders, aluminum hubcaps, metallic roofs and hoods. Court let his gaze travel from one side of the road to the other, counting the cars strung out across its width. Seven in all, four on the left side stretched from shoulder to median, and three on the right, in their path, from median to shoulder.
Or rather, from shoulder to shoulder—here the highway had a small space a car’s width on the left side of the innermost lane. Most likely, the space had been used by emergency vehicl
