The Deadliest Game (A Soldier of Fortune Adventure #2) by Peter McCurtin

Author:Peter McCurtin [McCurtin, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mercenaries, action adventure, action hero, soldiers of fortune, strike back, andy mcnab, piccadilly publishing
Publisher: Piccadilly
Published: 2022-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

GENERAL TORRE WAS not satisfied to talk with me on the telephone after the school billets massacre. He flew to Cordoba the next day and brought a small entourage with him, arriving in late morning in a staff car. He was outraged by the bloody assault, but his primary mood was one of despondency. He and Quinlan and I met in my bullet-riddled office and discussed the new situation, while my few remaining men finished burying the dead in the back of the school.

‘You should have waited on the burials, Rainey,’ Torre told me heavily, collapsed on a straight chair at the long table across from me. Quinlan sat off to one side, nursing a shallow wound in his left thigh.

‘The families of these men would have wanted them returned for a decent ceremony,’ Torre added. His tan looked a little deeper than before, but his face seemed more lined, because of this setback.

I leaned forward on my chair. ‘Look, damn it, General,’ I said harshly, ‘I can’t be concerned about the families of these men right now. You return these bodies to their homes and this will be in every newspaper in the country, and there will be a hell of a lot better chance that Operation Jaguar will be uncovered. I need just a little secrecy, if we’re going to get this mission back on track.’

Torre gave me a look. ‘Rainey, Operation Jaguar is dead. It simply did not work.’

I rose from my chair in sudden anger. ‘Dead, like hell!’ I said loudly. ‘It may be dead for you, General, who keeps up on it with a pool-side phone at the nearest resort. Or for President Perez, who has to solve his international problems through all of this and think of other things. But, by God, it’s not over for me! We were a twenty-man force when we arrived in Cordoba, and now we’re six. I saw those men die, Torre, at the hands of these Cordobist butchers. I saw what they did to Guerrero when I sent him into town for supplies. No, by God, it won’t be over for me, or for Quinlan here, until these sonsofbitches have tasted our righteous wrath!’

‘Ditto,’ Quinlan said from across the room. His balding hair was uncombed and his ageing blue eyes looked deadly-tired, and he was sloppily dressed in fatigues. I am sure Torre did not think much of him as a soldier. But Quinlan was the best there was.

‘Do you mean you really want to go ahead with this?’ Torre asked incredulously. ‘I have arranged for a generous separation pay for you and your remaining officers.’

‘That won’t do it, now, General,’ I told him. ‘Sure, I got in this for the money, me and my officers. But we’re professional soldiers, General, and we’ve been bloodied badly. We want to draw some blood ourselves, now. And I think you owe it to us to let us give it a try.’

Torre sighed heavily. ‘The President has already given his order to disband your Jaguar unit.

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