News From the Red Desert by Kevin Patterson

Author:Kevin Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Lattice drew back the curtain on the one-way mirror and watched the interrogation of John Wayne. Protocol was that interrogators were to be made aware when they were being observed but this was Lattice’s turf and CIA is not SF. Waller, the intelligence officer, remained sitting in the corner. He had been up all night. Speckles of blood were on his cheeks. The terp had stopped speaking long ago. The CIA officer refused to let him collapse. He had tied the man to the chair and pulled his head back by his hair.

“Just tell me who you got the files from. Then you can sleep. We’ll clean you up and you can go back to work and forget this ever happened.”

He did not answer.

“Wake up!” the CIA guy yelled, and slapped him across the face.

John Wayne was not asleep and he was not unconscious. It was clear that he would not be going back to work. He had decided he was going to be killed. When the Americans were done with him they would give him to the NDS, the Afghan security service. And then he would die, either immediately or in a cell, in Sarpoza in a few months or years. Everyone knew about the NDS. Everyone knew about Sarpoza.

Lattice knew something about Captain Waller. Ex-SF sergeant. In Waller’s impassive face, Lattice correctly read disgust at what was happening in front of him. He recognized the response. He decided to keep a careful eye on Waller.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.