Wilco- Lone Wolf 8 by Geoff Wolak

Author:Geoff Wolak [Wolak, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

I was inside, half an hour later, when a plane was heard, and I stepped out. To my surprise, a French C-160 circled and landed, eased to a halt, and the first man down was Major Liban. His men followed him, French Echo, as I stepped forwards and waited.

He closed in with a smile.

I halted him with a flat palm and stern look as the C-160 powered off. ‘What are you doing here?’

‘This is how you greet us, eh?’ he asked with a smile.

‘What – the fuck – are you doing here?’ I shouted.

He puzzled my attitude. ‘Our government sends us, yesterday, show of solidarity.’

His men had gathered.

‘An hour ago we had a very large car bomb here, which we found in time, sent by your state oil company, Elf. If you had been here you would have all been killed. Across the fucking border are four thousand rebels moving south, paid for by the French state oil company, Elf.’

I jabbed a finger at his chest, getting louder. ‘The French tax payers pay your wages, and the fucking French taxpayers are paying the wages of the men you say you have come to fight. So you – you call Paris and find out what the fuck is going on, and whose side you’re fighting on, or I’ll have you held as enemy soldiers! All of you, stay here and don’t move!’

I turned my back on them and walked off as a very loud debate broke out. Phone out, I called David Finch. ‘It’s Wilco. French Echo just arrived, to pitch in and help out, a show of solidarity.’

‘Really? That’s odd, but ... I guess the French President wants to prove his case that he never knew about the involvement of Elf.’

‘I’ve asked them to call Paris, and threatened to arrest them as enemy soldiers.’

‘They’re just pawns in the game, so don’t be harsh with them, we have enough of a rift on the cards.’

Phone down, it trilled. ‘Wilco.’

‘Colonel Mathews. OK to talk?’

‘Yes, sir, fire away,’ I said as I stood near the door, glancing at French Echo as they argued with each other.

‘You’ve ramped things up a little..?’

‘Yesterday we got word of Nigerian oil and French oil funding the rebels, all four thousand of them, and they’ve started moving south. I now have a few hundred men from 2 Para, and more SAS, enough to cut roads and set ambushes.’

‘That is quite a change, and I’ll send it up the line now. And your plan is?’

‘Plan is to see the chessboard before making a move. We’ll get eyes on, then see what we can do.’

‘We have a ship or two that can assist.’

‘We’re grateful, and I’ll keep that in mind.’

‘That Senator, he’s in Israel, but has suggested he’ll fly down to you.’

‘Not that safe around here, we just had a car bomb driven in by an ex-SAS man.’

‘Anyone hurt?’

‘No, I was suspicious and had it moved, otherwise we’d all be dead.’

‘And who paid him?’

‘French state oil company.’

‘They have an interest in Liberia?’

‘They’d like to, yes.

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