Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous by Manu Joseph

Author:Manu Joseph [Manu Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912408115
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Published: 2018-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

AS USUALLY HAPPENS to a discreetly pursued car, the blue hatchback begins to assume bleak human qualities. It looks stupid, debased and tragic, its haste comical because it is only racing towards a carefully laid-out trap. A little blue car duped by the republic, a young intelligence officer on its tail. How did these fools get into this situation when life is actually somewhat beautiful, and easy too, no matter what writers say?

He has always found the shared tragedy of a couple heartbreaking. Something particularly sorrowful about the togetherness of man and woman in misfortune, even if they are not lovers. He would not want to look at their faces when their destruction begins, in a few hours.

He wonders why the Bureau has planned to capture Jamal this way. Why not just pluck him at home, or when he goes to the market? There would be too many witnesses? And, maybe they want to take him with his supplies, whatever it is that he is carrying in that bag or in the boot of the car. Also, Boss wants to know if he is going to pick up any interesting characters along the way. Apart from a young woman, that is. Men, dangerous men, that is what the Bureau is looking for.

Mukundan hopes a miracle will occur, that the Indica will stop on the highway and the girl will get away. She is probably only getting a ride to the home of a relative, who lives in one of those gloomy grey buildings by the highway.

The phone rings in his shirt pocket. It is Boss. ‘Sir.’

‘Is the girl still there?’

‘Yes, sir.’

‘We have to extract her before we take the car.’

‘Sir.’

‘We have about five hours to do that, if they don’t stop anywhere. But we can’t have a situation where Jamal changes his plan.’

‘Sir.’

‘We just want the girl out of the car, that’s all. Nothing else should change. We want him to be on course, we want him to come to us. We’re waiting.’

‘Sir.’

‘But we don’t want the girl.’

‘Got it, sir.’

‘We extract the girl without Jamal changing his plan.’

‘Sir.’

‘If you have a plan let me know. Don’t intervene until then. If things change, call.’

‘Sir.’

‘The thing is, Jamal might collect more people along the way. We are interested in those people.’

‘Jamal threw his luggage in the back seat, sir.’

‘So?’

‘He is not expecting anyone in the back seat, sir. Or maybe there are a lot of things in the boot, sir.’

‘Let’s wait for a while, let’s see if any men board. And then take a call.’

‘Sir.’

‘I’ll be in touch.’

‘Sir.’

‘We have to extract that girl.’

Mukundan can see why the presence of the girl is a problem. The Bureau wishes to take Jamal to a safe house, get all the juice out of him, or flip him into an informer. What use are terrorists in prison? The Bureau can abduct shady men and keep them in illegal detention for months until they are of no use. Then they are handed over to formal custody. Sometimes they die.

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