Last Light by Andy McNab

Author:Andy McNab
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Stone, Action & Adventure, Intelligence officers, Nick (Fictitious character), Panama, British, Fiction, Suspense, Adventure, Crime & Thriller, Thriller
ISBN: 9780552152389
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

21

The flesh refused point blank to unstick itself from the material. They’d been mates for too many hours now and just didn’t want to be parted. I ripped it away like a sticking plaster, and immediately wished that I hadn’t: the pain was outrageous, and that was before the soapy lather started running into the raw, red, messy wound.

‘Fuck, fuck, fuck!’ I couldn’t help myself.

As I gritted my teeth and rubbed soap into the gash to clear out the crap, there was a noise from the sink area. I poked my newly switched-on head out to say thanks to Carrie for the clothes and towel, but it wasn’t her, it was Luz – at least, I presumed it was. She was dressed in a blue, rather worn-looking long T-shirt style nightgown, and had the wildest black curly hair I’d ever seen, like Scary Spice plugged into the mains. Near her on the drainer was a pile of khaki-coloured clothes and a blue striped towel. She stood there, staring at me with big dark eyes above high, pronounced Latin cheekbones and not a teenage zit in sight. She was going to be a very beautiful woman one day, but not just yet. Sticking out of her nightgown was a pair of lanky legs, skinny as shaved pencils, the shins covered with tomboy bruises.

She looked at me, not scared or embarrassed, just interested at the sight of a soapy version of Darth Maul sticking out from behind the shower curtain.

‘Hola.’

That sort of Spanish I understood. ‘Oh,hola. You’re Luz?’

She nodded, trying to work me out, or maybe she just found the accent strange. ‘My mom told me to bring you these.’ She spoke American, tinged with a hint of Spanish.

‘Thank you very much. I’m Nick – nice to meet you, Luz.’

She nodded – ‘See you’ – and left, going the long way round so as not to pass the shower.

I got back to business. The wound was about four inches long and maybe an inch deep, but at least it was a clean cut.

The soap and shampoo were starting to cake on me now as I stood and got to grips with the mission, and myself. Letting loose with the hose, I rinsed off for my allotted sixty seconds, having a piss at the same time, and the smell was bad. My urine was a horrible dark yellow, which meant I was very dehydrated. I supposed that might account for the dizziness.

I towelled myself dry in the open air, then got dressed in Aaron’s clothes, khaki cotton trousers with two map pockets either side, and a very old, full-sleeved, faded grey T-shirt, telling the world, ‘Just do it.’ The trousers were a few inches too big around the waist, but a couple of twists of the waistband tightened them up. The trouser pockets had good Velcro seals, so I put my wallet, passport and air ticket, still in their plastic bags, in the right-hand one.

After slicking back my hair I attacked the D

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