Mike Dixon

CHAPTER 9
Problems
avid sat in a corner of the dive shop, sorting
D through a new consignment of scuba equipment,
sticking on labels and assigning codes. He was aware that
he was making mistakes. There were too many things on
his mind. Problems were nothing new but these were com-
ing in like they‟d never stop and they weren‟t ordinary
problems … they were serious!
It was only two weeks since his return to Australia and
far too much had happened in that short space of time. He
had hit Harald. There was the serious incident off Montague
Island and there were the parcels. He couldn‟t get the
parcels out of his mind. He had posted five and only one
had turned up. But it wasn‟t like any he had packed. It was
like they‟d all been opened and the contents muddled up.
Tim was out in the yard filling scuba tanks. It was early
afternoon and they‟d not had a single customer all day.
Then a car arrived and two men with short hair got out.
They looked like they were in the army. David liked army
guys. They had lots of money to spend on things like div-
ing. The men entered the shop.
„Is Tim Price around?‟
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