The Five Fingers by Gayle Rivers & James Hudson

Author:Gayle Rivers & James Hudson [Rivers, Gayle & Hudson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, historical, War & Military
ISBN: 9780385129633
Amazon: 0385129637
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1978-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

leapt up on Morrosco's back. Using his hand as a whip, he drove Morrosco across the river. On the far shore, he jumped down.

"I've always wanted to ride an ass into China," he shouted.

Morrosco threw a rock at Wiley. I was skipping stones on the water when I heard Prather behind me. I turned to look. He was standing on a huge boulder, his arms outstretched, his face toward China.

"A soldier told Pelopidas," he recited, " 'We are fallen among the enemies.' Said he, 'How are we fallen among them more than they among us?'" Prather bowed and, with a flourish, offered Morrosco his perch. Morrosco scrambled up alongside the older man.

"Confucius say, 'Woman who puts carrots and pees in same pot very unsanitary.' "

We were making too much noise, but I did not care. Our bodies were physically rejecting stress that had been accumulating since we pushed off from Thailand. The tension dammed up in us all had reached a bursting point with Toliver's death; now we were sluicing them off in a childish, almost hysterical way. We must have looked half mad, but it was harmless fun, so I let it go. I felt like banging my head against a rock, I wanted so desperately to release all the feelings bottled up inside me. My mind was racing. What the hell were we doing here? How could we expect to get away with it? How much more can we take? But we had gotten away with it. Here we were in China. Mission conclusion was a day away. I had almost a panicky feeling. I had so much to say and no way to express it. I let them play. We laughed and wrestled and jabbered away. And nothing was said.

Only Tan showed no sign of jubilation. He had not spoken since we crossed the border. His actions seemed to say that what we had accomplished in the past three and a half weeks was nothing; success could be measured only by tomorrow's results. Two months earlier, a mission such as ours would have been more

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