River batter up

“Thousand-pound gorilla who?” asked Drakul.
And River Shoulders roared and hit him with a twelve-foot-long concrete obelisk.
One second, Drakul loomed over me. The next there was an enormous sound and an explosion of shattering concrete that left half a dozen little cuts on my face, and Drakul was nowhere to be seen. The weight vanished from me so abruptly that for a second I thought I was levitating off the ground. I was suddenly dizzy, and my vision narrowed to a tunnel.
“Now, that,” I gasped, “is comedy.”

Battle Ground Chapter 12, Page 118-119