Edge of Danger
“It was a single runway but had been built by the RAF in the old days for military use, so it was capable of handling anything, even a Hercules. When the Gulfstream landed and they disembarked, two Land Rovers drove up. The man who got out of the first one was in his sixties, deeply tanned, white-bearded, wearing a crumpled bush hat, khaki shirt and slacks.
‘Hal Stone.’ He held out his hand. ‘I understand you’re a hell of a diver, Dillon.’ ‘How did you know it was me?’ ‘The wonders of modern science. Computers, the Internet, the downloading of pretty colour pictures.’ He turned to the others. ‘Billy and Harry Salter. What a combination. Even the Kray brothers would have been impressed.’ He called in Arabic and two men got out of the other Land Rover. ‘Load everything. Take it to the Sultan.’ Lacey and Parry found them, and Dillon made the introductions. Stone said, ‘Are you staying over?’ ‘Not this time, sir,’ Lacey told him.
‘Good, then you won’t need my rather dubious expertise on Hazar.
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