THIRTY-THREE
The hotel guests had been herded into the amusement arcade building. The fun fair continued to operate for the holiday makers and the sounds of the Wild Mouse, big dipper, screams and the clanking as it climbed the next hill, resounded. The hub-bub of people, the smell of donuts, candy floss, fried onions and belly ache burgers, shouts and screams of artificially created fear, all of this hit Jack’s senses and contributed to his nausea. He was experiencing genuine fear, tried not to show it, but Jackie saw and Mandy sensed. They pulled him aside in the hotel foyer, gently pushed him against the wall, ‘Okay, which one of you is having me first?’ they giggled and retched.
‘Helicopter in-bound, Jack.’
Jackie looked around and could only see this tiny man with John Lennon glass
