Coral Hill by Neil Bhati

Author:Neil Bhati
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: assassin, terrorist, art, muse, ghost, dryad, drone, black site, increment, radicalise
Publisher: Neil Bhati

RESIST

6. MORDOR

PACKAGE

Everard Francis Rush wore black goggles that sealed his eyes from the abrasive grit of the desert wind. He slouched against the pitted flank of the old Toyota jeep, waiting for the helicopter. The transports came at dusk and occasionally at dawn, but never in the brazen glare of daylight. Unmarked black helicopters, reluctantly drafted to serve yet another third-world army.

Rush wore a casual mixture of kit and quite deliberately his camouflage was not of a British pattern. They all wore their military identity discs though they had resigned their commissions before this quite unmilitary project. It was forbidden to refer to their former ranks but Rush, nominally in command, insisted that Smith and Fitzgibbon call him “Sir”. They had all been here too long, and they bickered and brooded and no longer acted like soldiers.

He was expecting a helicopter, an old UH-1 of dubious provenance. Its crew would be Special Forces, trained by the British to be used as catspaws in their deniable counterinsurgency. He knew them of old, Qatari; they held their assault rifles on constant alert. No lazy straps that might allow fatigue to sling the heavy guns aside. Perhaps they recognised the same font of training in Rush’s casual stance. He’d never yet had a problem with a handover. The helicopters would drop their Package then flee. Words were superfluous when the churning rotors drowned out all gentler sounds and raised a dervish of sand to lash their faces.

Very rarely a Package might be forwarded on from the base for a more thorough investigation. Those flights were modern airframes piloted by Europeans, though again no one ever spoke. To even know of this place and to be allowed access through the no-fly zone was sufficient passport. Though the land-borders were porous Rush and his assets maintained a quarantine of security that stretched for twenty miles in every direction. They were isolated on the edge of the ancient world.

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