The Old Trade of Killing by Max Hennessy

Author:Max Hennessy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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We walked slowly back to the camp, with Leach limping in the middle, as though we were all suddenly afraid he’d run out on us, all of us knowing things could never be the same again. They didn’t even look now like the men I’d known during the war. Then, nobody could ever do without anybody else and out of that knowledge had sprung the comradeship that had overridden all undercurrents of bad feeling; but now, where once the issue had been a straightforward and uncomplicated one of duty and nothing else, we were hag-ridden by ambition and greed.

Nobody spoke on the way back, but you could literally feel the distrust moving from one to the other of us. There was a lot of noise from the Arab compound and the camels seemed to be restless. The breeze had started again from nowhere, stirring the sand into small gritty whirlpools, and I decided it must be that which was unsettling them. I saw a camel move across the dying glow of a fire and decided it must be a stray, then I saw a man run after it and there was silence again.

Just as we reached the camp, sullen and angry with each other, we heard the roar of an engine from the vehicle park and we all stopped dead and tried to stare through the darkness. For a moment we seemed to be frozen, then, as a chorus of yells started up in the distance, Morena shouldered us aside and set off running.

‘The bastards are pinching the trucks!’ he yelled.

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