Oh my, I need to read this book, like... NOW!
Opening paragraphs:
There's a scream inside us all we save for death. Once it's out, once it's given to the world, there ain't no going back on it. It's time to let go, to release your fragile grip on life. Otherwise, God's just going to wrench it from you.
If you never heard that scream, I hope for your sake you never will. I, on the other hand, must've heard it a thousand times. I can hear it now. A woman somewhere over towards the rocks is squealing like an animal that's just realised it exists to be butchered, her cries issuing out of the fog like blood through a bandage. Now some guy, probably her partner, has joined in. Shouting at them, telling them to leave her alone, as if he has some influence on the situation. But you know he hasn't. Fear's slicing so hard at his voice it's cutting right through. Soon she'll die, and so will he. And I can do nothing but lie here in the dark, listening to my frightened heart pounding; just as all around me, hundreds of others must be lying there, listening to their frightened hearts pounding. It makes you feel sick to do it. But we don't seem to have a choice.