““There is an hour before we land,” Hasni solicitously told him. The boy’s eyes shifted away then to Cale and the American businessman, who were already standing shivering in the aisle. Their blankets had been stripped from them. Even Stone’s flesh looked porous, cheeselike, on the edge of dissolution. McCloud dreaded joining them in their nakedness. He hoped he wasn’t about to become again the meat in their debate over the substantial difference between Stone’s stepson and Hasni. Nonetheless, h...e was on his feet suddenly and without question. There was no one else here, on this upper deck, in Taliq’s garden of ideologies. While he slept, the population of the place had been cleared. Cale was smiling. “Show trial time,” he muttered. He seemed totally recovered from the punishment he’d taken earlier from Taliq. Hasni set himself to straightening their placards, which were dog-eared now but which had nonetheless proven sturdy. It made you drink that little bullet-headed Razir probably had a gift for the placard business, had maybe—for the Iraqis—hung them around the necks of captured Iranian officers.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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