Hunting In The Shadows (American Praetorians) - Plot & Excerpts
We had even steered around Al Kut and Amarah. Coming into Basra itself, however, had required crossing the bridge over the Euphrates to get to Bani Malik Al Sharqiya. That had meant a police checkpoint, with two IPs trying to look important while the Basra PPF, in their tan uniforms, looked over our vehicle. Actually, they didn’t so much look over our vehicle, as they looked at the big wad of dinars that Jim had tossed on top of the kitbags in the back, took them, and waved us through. Money talks, and the more you have, the further it goes, especially in the Middle East. Apparently, the PPF was less interested in the evil American mercenaries that Baghdad was screaming about than they were in lining their pockets. If what Haas had said about the loyalties of the PPF was true, it actually wasn’t all that surprising. We turned off the main road and into the narrow side streets of Sharqiya. That resulted in several false starts and turning around; our destination was on the far side of the canal that ran through the middle of the neighborhood. Twice we got to the canal, only to find the bridge across that we’d seen on the imagery either wasn’t there at all, or was way too narrow to get the van across, much less the HiLux trailing us. Finally, Nick pulled back onto the main road and pushed another half mile down to where a larger road led to a two-span bridge across the canal.
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