In Cold Blood by Mark Dawson

Author:Mark Dawson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Action, Military, Adventure, Thriller, spy
Publisher: Mark Dawson
Published: 2014-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

BEATRIX WALKED back to the campsite. The night was hot, still and stifling, and there was an edge of incipient violence in the dark corners and rowdy bars. She stopped at a roadside shack for a meal of beans and rice and watched the Somali market alongside, still open, and it reminded her of a scene out of Aladdin. Children rode mule carts and hit the mules with long reeds to make them go faster. Goats chased each other. Women lay face down on prayer mats. A small crowd of kids collected around her and stood, staring at her eating as if it was something that they had never seen before. They stared unabashedly and did not avert their eyes when she looked at them. “Salaam,” she said. One of the children spoke pidgin English and introduced himself. She asked all of them their names and then the conversation fell silent. They scattered and left her to finish her meal alone.

She set off again. A large UN truck with a canvas-covered back rumbled by and the same group of children appeared out of nowhere to chase after it. She was a little surprised that the Land Cruiser was where she had left it. She went into her tent, took out a bottle of water and her morphine and drank down another two pills. The ache was steady now, almost constant, and she knew that the exertion of the next few days would exacerbate it further.

Nothing much that she could do about that.

She arranged her mosquito net and tried to ignore the roaches that scuttled beneath the sides of the tent, looking for food.

Sleep, when it came, was not particularly refreshing.

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