Chapter 46
California
Doctor Bernard Clevenger was sitting on a rock ledge near the San Andreas Fault. Bernard retrieved a thermos of iced tea from the pack he carried and a Saran-wrapped peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich. As Bernard unwrapped the sandwich, something in his mind began to bother him about La Palma. As he ate his sandwich, he looked about, eyeing the ground. The ground was dry and cracked. ‘Cracked,’ he thought, ‘that damned fissure on the west side of the Cumbre Vieja volcano. What the hell was that guy’s name? That funny little guy with the big bushy beard. Yasir, Doctor Yasir Skandrani! Yasir had been on the island for years and had volunteered to show me around.’
One Year Earlier, on La Palma
On the west side of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, Bernard Clevenger and Ya
