Sniper’s Debt (7even Series Book 2) by Mainak Dhar

Author:Mainak Dhar [Dhar, Mainak]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: 4 Hour Press (Trade Imprint of India Research Press); First edition (2020)
Published: 2020-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

‘Cui bono? Our long dead Greek friend Cicero can help us here when all sorts of fancy drones and satellites cannot. Cui bono, major?’

Karzai and I were huddled in a small cave we had found. Hanif was keeping watch for any unwelcome visitors. We were no more than a few minutes march away from the Korengal post. When I had called in to Sandberg once again, he had no real new news to offer. The hijackers and their supporters clearly had some heavy-duty firepower and the Americans seemed to be gathering even more firepower to take them on.

Neither had Sandberg made any mention of Chinese involvement, leading me to believe that Gopal and the Indian government were keeping that discovery close to their chests. Governments and spooks play those kind of games all the time with each other. The only problem is that it usually puts grunts like me in harm’s way.

So, this time when Karzai’s sat-phone had rung and it was Dhar on the line, I was intrigued. He was a man I trusted, one who didn’t hesitate to call a spade a spade.

‘What do you mean, sir?’

‘The part of the world you’re in is a complicated piece of real estate, but when you get it down to its simplest essence, things become clearer. The Greeks used that phrase to drive their thinking in criminal investigations. It is Latin for ‘who profits from it?’ I don’t think human motivations and instincts have changed much in thousands of years. There’s always someone who profits from a crime. Who is it?’

I had kept the speaker on, and Karzai was leaning over, listening in.

‘The Taliban and ISIS both don’t really gain by getting the Americans to step in again. They need to be exterminated. Few people will shed tears if the Americans bomb the hell out of them, so why would ISIS call attention to themselves? If I add on everything else that we’ve learned from you, including the Chinese involvement, then it’s almost certainly not ISIS.’

‘Who then, sir? What’s with the Chinese angle?’

‘I really don’t know, son. But what I can tell you is that Chinese military elite don’t land up as guns for hire. If they’re there, then the establishment sent them, either covertly or overtly. Before we get to what the Chinese are doing there, let’s back up. Why do you think the war in Afghanistan continues even after al-Qaeda was taken out and Osama went swimming with the sharks?’

I had no idea what the old spy was talking about.

‘Son, the world we live in has all kinds of wars going on. Some are fought on the battlefields, some are fought in the full glare of the media with live telecasts of battles, but most are fought in the darkness. Those dark wars are the ones which often really matter. All three wars are being fought in Afghanistan. But the real war being fought in the darkness is the war that is being waged in millions of American homes.

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