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\u201cWhat else is there?\u201d \u201cPosition, power, faith, wealth and ideals.\u201d Du Plessis shrugged. \u201cAnd he gets all of the above. No, trust me, he would probably have paid to get what we\u2019ll be giving him.\u201d \u201cThen it sounds as though you missed an opportunity.\u201d Preet Du Plessis smiled. \u201cHe will come in useful later. I just so happened to record our meeting, so I may have a powerful ally in the future, or a man to blackmail. Either way, he will be a valuable asset.\u201d He paused, gesturing to the weapon system in front of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you used one of these?\u201d \u201cNo. But I have studied the handbook and once practised with a dummy model.\u201d \u201cA dummy?\u201d Du Plessis did not hide his annoyance. \u201cAt a quarter of a million pounds a shot, my previous employers didn\u2019t throw that kind of money around.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t tend to have spare aircraft to practice on, either. But the sighting system and laser guidance simulation is an accurate representation.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019d better be sure, bru.\u201d \u201cTrust me.\u201d \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like I have a choice\u2026\u201d \u201cI\u2019d worry more about the quality of your intelligence than me using this thing,\u201d Collins replied tersely. \u201cIt was designed for the US army and marines to use against Russian aircraft, and those boys don\u2019t tend to hit three-figure IQs.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t worry about the intel.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s at cabinet level. But I do worry about your colleagues,\u201d Du Plessis said pointedly. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about those idiots,\u201d Collins replied with a smile. \u201cI\u2019ve made sure they\u2019ll be kept busy\u2026\u201d OceanofPDF.com Chapter Twenty-Two \u2019m taking General Mantutsi.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ll do as I bloody well say.\u201d King shook his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, boss, but that\u2019s the way it is.\u201d Stewart glared at him but was met with the coldest eyes he had ever stared into, and that included his own each day in the mirror. It was something he had noticed as King\u2019s missions stacked up. As if each killing took something away from the man, but added something else, too.<\/p>\n

King simply became increasingly dangerous with every operation. \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know these guys,\u201d he replied. \u201cAnd they don\u2019t know me, either. If what I suspect is true, then the operation will go all to shit, and I\u2019d rather be alone on an op that\u2019s gone tits up, than relying on somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone taken\u2026\u201d \u201cI would sit this one out, boss. They are all experienced soldiers, and they have a clear objective. Hang back in a support role and let them go in and get Moffusa Bentuwi out of there.\u201d King paused. \u201cStay out of this one and live to fight another day.\u201d \u201cAnd if you run into trouble going after General Mantutsi?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I\u2019ll get out on my own.<\/p>\n

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. OceanofPDF.com For Clair, Summer and Lewis OceanofPDF.com Contents Also by A P Bateman Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Author\u2019s Note OceanofPDF.com Also by A P Bateman The Alex King Series The Contract Man Lies and Retribution Shadows of Good Friday The Five Reaper Stormbound Breakout From the Shadows Rogue The Asset Last Man Standing Hunter Killer The Congo Contract Dead Man Walking Sovereign Power Kingmaker Untouchable The Enemy Die Trying All the King\u2019s Men The Eagle\u2019s Talon Backlash Old Scores Crossfire The Rob Stone Series The Ares Virus TheTown The Island Stone Cold The Cartel 1600 The DCI Grant Series Vice Taken Standalone Novels The Most Dangerous Game Never Go Back Novellas The Perfect Murder?<\/p>\n

Atonement OceanofPDF.com T Chapter One Uganda-Tanzania Border, Twenty Years Ago he right arm of the free-world. It should have been a pen or a chequebook. Perhaps even a bible. But it was a FN FAL rifle, and it was in King\u2019s hands, but he felt anything but free. Its barrel was scalding hot, the stock sticky from the blood of its last owner, and it was all that stood between him and the thirty Ugandan government forces intent on killing him.<\/p>\n

There was movement in the jungle behind him, and King picked up a spare magazine for the rifle before dragging one of the bodies by its ankle and dropping it in front of another body, before laying down behind his makeshift barrier. King reached for another magazine on the corpse in front of him, tugging it out from the man\u2019s otherwise depleted bandolier.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t certain if the bodies would afford him protection from enemy bullets, but they did at least shield him from view and provide the rifle with a steady rest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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