I suspect all of us were thinking the same thing; was it even feasible to see this job through, or did we need to cut our losses and try to get out? That presented its own problems, especially as I was pretty sure our employers back in the States probably wouldn’t be too keen on helping us extract when we’d just told them to find some other way to get the hostages back.Not only that, but, in spite of the odds, I didn’t much care for the idea of leaving those men and women to the mercy of those machete-wielding savages to save our own skins. Call me a romantic.“Is that it?” Jim asked, the first to break the silence. There was a wave of dark chuckles as we got it. Baird looked nonplused, so Jim obliged him by explaining, “This entire job has been so clusterfucked already, that I don’t see how this changes anything. It was damned near impossible before. Now it’s really damned near impossible. Big difference.”“Joking aside, it’s a valid point,” Hank said thoughtfully, fingering his beard.
