Black Ops: El Dorado by Matt Lynn

Author:Matt Lynn [Lynn, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2012-01-30T14:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“How many of them did you have?” asked Jack with a broad grin.

The two men had just clambered aboard a Toyota Land Cruiser, and the heavy vehicle had pulled away from the compound and was starting to twist away into the mountains. It was only eight in the morning and there had only been time to grab a quick coffee and some eggs before they were told to catch the last truck leaving for the mines. Clouds had drifted across the sky, black and ugly, and some rain was starting to spit from them. The air was hot and humid and sticky, even at this time of day, and Alex could feel the sweat starting to cling to him, and hear the insects buzzing close to the vehicle.

“What do you mean how many?”

Jack slapped him roughly on the back. “You need to learn how to pick the low-hanging fruit, my friend.”

“Well how many did you have?”

“Maria came back to my room first, then I went back to the pool, and I hooked up with a seventeen year old called Fernanda. At least I think that was what she was called. Spent an hour with her then went looking for Maria to see if she wanted to join us. Hell, make it a threesome. So far as I could tell Fernanda was up for anything, But Maria had already turned in for the night. So maybe next time.”

“Blimey.”

Jack chuckled. “I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to enjoy this job. When I’ve done my time in Unit Five, I might come back and get a gig here.”

“We’re going to kill the bastard, remember.”

Alex glanced up towards the driver. He was a young Columbian guy, and he was sealed off from the main passenger cabin by a sheet of Perspex. There was some loud R&B playing on the stereo. It didn’t look as if he could speak much English, and even if he could, the racket of the music and the tyres churning along the muddy track were drowning out their conversation.

“Right,” said Jack. He shrugged. “Still, you know how it is in places like this. Get rid of one mad bastard and another one takes his place. I can get a job with the next one.”

“It won’t look so good on your CV. Killing the last bloke, I mean. They don’t look like a forgiving bunch.”

Jack looked briefly disappointed. “I’ve never been too good at career planning.”

“Most guys in Unit Five can say that.”

“Helleva place though.”

“We’ll find you someplace similar. When we finally get out of the unit that is.”

The Toyota jolted suddenly as it drove across a ditch. As they climbed higher into the mountains, the track became rougher and rougher, pitted with stones, and with ditches that snagged the tyres and would have ripped the wheels from a less sturdily built vehicle. The clouds had opened up, and a rainstorm was lashing into the mountainside, and a wind was whipping in from the east, blowing the rain hard into the side of the truck.

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