Dragon Fire (The Battle For The Falklands Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
Gaston Bersa came from Salta, a small farming town in the Lerma valley of Argentina's northwest. His family farm would be desert dry if not for the water delivered by canal and pipe from the snow-capped mountains that towered above it. With this precious moisture, lemons and oranges grew where only dust devils and brown brush should flourish. Days of hard work were broken by reading in the shade, moments where he would take out his tattered Cuban-translated copy of Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ digesting it for the hundredth time and reciting each word as if by memory. And dreaming of the blue open sea and the freedom it imparted. A sustained drought had come, causing the government to divert water to the thirsty cities. Soon the groves browned and died and Gaston’s father had taken to doing odd construction and repair jobs in town, leaving him to watch his small sister and his broken-down mother. One day the pages of his novel had finally fallen out and been taken by the wind. They scattered over the bones of the citrus trees. That day, Gaston had dropped his shovel and walked the six miles to town. He did not even know why he made the trek, and he could not argue with the sensation of being drawn that way. Once among the town’s squat buildings and dust-choked streets, he trudged past out-of-work farm hands and right into a government office.
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