Tyranny in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone

Author:William W. Johnstone [Johnstone, William W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Men's Adventure
ISBN: 9780786011469
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

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” ‘In other words,’ Ben replied, his smile rather grim, ‘you’re right.’

” ‘We’re over here fighting for money, General. Not for any political philosophy or cause. They won’t need to use drugs on us. We’ll tell them what they want to know … as much as we can. Which isn’t much.’

“Ben believed that. He was reasonably sure the men had been recruited by a third party; that was the way it was usually done. The money men (in this case, he was sure it was the fast-growing and decidedly socialistic government outside the SUSA) stayed anonymous in the shadows.

“Ben waved for the guards to take the prisoners away, and then shifted the camp chair around and stretched his long legs out in front of him, away from the field desk in his tent.

“Before the team from Intelligence could start their work on the three American mercenaries, the men decided to tell all they knew… or so they insisted. Intel believed they were holding a lot back, but what they did say was enough for Ben to fit another piece of the puzzle in place. There were still gaps in the overall mystery, but Ben felt he should talk to Cecil Jefferys back in the SUSA and warn him that the government outside their borders was planning some sort of move against the SUSA.

” ‘We’re just beginning to get whispers about that, Ben,’ Ben’s longtime friend and the President of the SUSA said. ‘I was going to give you a bump in a few hours. Of course, we both knew it was coming eventually.’

” ‘Yes, that we did, Cec. I think it might he best if you had a little chat with somebody in power.’

” ‘I’d do just that, Ben. But nobody really knows who makes up the shadow government.’

” ‘Everything is really still all that screwed up in the new capital?’

” ‘It’s a mess, and that’s being kind. To be blunt, it’s a royal fuckup. The people we felt we could trust are out of the loop… or just out, period. And I mean all the way out.

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