The Illuminations: A Novel by Andrew O'Hagan

Author:Andrew O'Hagan [O'Hagan, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374712730
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015-03-23T21:00:00+00:00

AIRLIFT

Beside the whop-whop of rotary blades, Luke stood with the commander at the edge of the convoy. ‘There will be a full investigation,’ Emory said. ‘Questions. Big fucking questions.’ But Luke wasn’t listening. The camouflaged underside of the Lynx lifted away, creating a wind that blew the dust into a dense cloud. ‘You chose to leave his body,’ said the commander. ‘He was Afghan National Army.’

‘He was not one of us.’

‘We are all one of us, Captain.’

‘Yes, sir.’

‘We are forging on. Nobody’s going back. We are fifty-nine miles from the delivery point and that is where the action is. Major Scullion will stick with the platoon and we can discuss his jolly outing into bandit country back at the base.’

‘As you wish, sir.’

‘It’s not as I wish. What I wish is that the British army did not harbour such fucking idiots.’

‘Yes, sir.’

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