Invisible Armies by Jon Evans

Author:Jon Evans [Jon Evans]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 2011-12-27T22:00:00+00:00

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"I'm going back to London today," Keiran says, over morning coffee and tartines at the Brasserie de la Reine. He does not look directly at anyone else at the table save for Danielle, who gathers she has somehow escaped his wrath, perhaps by protesting, however feebly, last night. "I'm done."

"I understand," Angus says. "But we need you to teach whoever we get to replace you. Give them the files you've found, the network access, everything."

"I'll send you a CD. I'm done. I'm leaving Paris today."

"We all are," Estelle says.

Danielle looks at her. "What?"

"We've got everything we can get here. We're all going to meet with the foundation, back in London."

"The foundation," Keiran says scornfully. "And what can they do for you?"

"Give us direction," Angus says.

"You don't need direction. You need to have some fucking sense knocked into you. You say you want to help the world's poor and you wind up torturing an innocent man. And you're still trying to justify it. You don't know fuck-all about the poor and downtrodden, you just want to fight the powers that be, because you love being a romantic outlaw. You say businesses exploit the Third World, and that's why its people are so pitiable and deprived? You stupid selfish cunt. The Third World is hopelessly poor and sick and ignorant because it's been hopelessly poor and sick and ignorant forever, and its governments are corrupt sociopathic kleptocracies. Free trade, big business, capital investment, globalization, all the things you hate, those are the only fucking hope of the people you say you want to save. What's really going on is that you're exploiting the poor, the sick, the slaves, you exploit them as your excuse to fight the only force that has a real fucking chance of helping them. You make me sick."

"Keiran, mate –"

"Don't call me mate. Our friendship is over. Is that clear?"

After a moment Angus nods. He looks like he has just been punched in the gut.

"I'm on the 3PM Eurostar. Pick a different train. I'm going to pack." Keiran empties his espresso and exits the brasserie. Angus and Estelle look at one another.

"The foundation," Laurent says. "At last. I hope they're worth the wait."

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