Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization

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This time, Marlow knew that he was going to die. It wasn’t the first time he’d jumped out of a doomed aircraft. Indeed, this was his third time, and if it wasn’t for the fact that he was his squadron’s ace pilot, he might consider himself cursed. He accepted that always seeking the heart of the action meant that being the enemy’s main target was inevitable.

But this was the first time he’d abandoned a plane without being in control.

He fell. His descent was no graceful drift towards the ground, nursed through the air by the comforting spread of a parachute. He was plummeting. Punched from the shattered cockpit of his P-51, he’d been forced back into the plane’s holed and tattered tail, his left arm and shoulder bruised and numbed by the impact. Now he could hardly feel them at all. He’d succeeded in opening his chute but he was spinning, lines caught around his flailing limbs, air roaring past his ears, breath sucked from his lungs. At this speed the impact would kill him, if suffocation and fear didn’t finish him beforehand.

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