“He heard the spoon handle’s tiny tink, registered the impact of Mouse’s flying tackle, felt for the millionth time the exquisitely painful cut of the final irony: that the entire platoon had been looking toward the wailing villagers, leaving Mouse the only witness to the source of the grenade. In rescuing his last surviving squad-mate from one atrocity, Allen had delivered him to another. Brennan was ultimately granted a posthumous medal for venturing into a cavern full of armed VC children, an...d Mouse said not a word. He said nothing to Allen, either, and put in for a transfer soon after. Allen had saved Mouse and lost him in the same motion. And now: instructions for bringing down a plane; the honed instincts of Karin Rao and Gina; the news anchor telling of Jamie’s long-held interest in his father’s Cessna; both Jamie and his father, describing an airport visit as the last thing they had done; the boy’s weird reaction to the crop duster, and his unusually knowledgeable questions about blowing up trees; and his father’s recent bout of rage after Ms.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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