‘Get your goggles on,’ he advised. ‘And get some CPR going, Steve. If your man’s not dead yet he needs help as fast as possible. Is he well clear of the shorting cable?’ ‘Yeah,’ came Steve’s shaky reply. ‘But I think we might be too late for CPR. He looks really weird under the infra-red – like he’s still on fire. Our medic’s checking him now …’ There followed a moment’s silence, then Steve added, ‘No. He’s gone, I’m afraid.’ ‘We’ll have to make arrangements to leave him somewhere safe while the rest of us proceed,’ said Richard to Aleks. ‘Right,’ said Aleks. The Russian seemed shaken. Perhaps even shocked. The lights flickered, luckily giving Richard enough warning to get his goggles off before they came back on. ‘Have you got a volt metre?’ he asked Sato, who was still standing with a laptop in one hand and the snake of the connector wavering with its head dangerously close to the wall, apparently frozen with horror. ‘If the light’s back on, so’s the power.
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