That must have been a couple of days ago judging by the state of his corpse, now hideously bloated by heat and decomposition. Flies buzzed and swarmed around the gory splatter of blood and brains on the sandy ground, as well as the gaping hole in the side of his head. It was a horrific sight matc...
Desperate and dangerous it might have been, but it was the only way he could think of getting them all out of this alive. However, convincing his teammates of the merits of his plan was far more difficult. ‘You can’t be fucking serious,’ Mason said, shaking his head vehemently at the mere thought...
She blinked a few times, eyes adjusting to the weak daylight filtering in through the drawn curtains, then glanced at the alarm clock on her bedside table – 06:32. ‘Christ,’ she said, her voice husky and her throat dry. Having served more than a decade in the US Army before her posting here, she ...
‘What did you say to your superior to change his mind?’ Al Ameen was in his early thirties, he guessed, with a good-looking, clean-shaven face and keen eyes that missed nothing. Unlike most of the grim-faced bastards who inhabited this place, he possessed an easy, almost disarming smile. The only...
The streets of Moscow were broad, designed to allow the easy movement of troops in the event of war, but these days they had to contend with little more than congested traffic. Concealed in the back of a delivery truck that passed unnoticed amongst the thronging multitude, Anya sat in brooding si...