now light that was flashbulb-white and shot through with strobing blue flashes filled the bed of the pickup truck and beach pressed himself against the bottom , hands laced over his head , thinking he had blown it , parked too close to a blind turn and they were going to crash into his truck , and they might only be injured but he would be killed , and they would find the ruins of his 'rifle ' and say well now , what 's this ?