“The naked old soldier sat tied to a chair in the center of little concrete building that operated as a province jail, his white beard stained with blood from cuts on his mouth and nose. “Your friends can’t save you. Only I can,” Cole said. Cole, having seen the plane in the rice paddy, was amazed that everyone had survived the crash intact. The village leader said both the American woman and Vale were unhurt. Cole was happy she wasn’t dead. But now they had to search the villages along the rive...r. McKean stared back at Cole and Besson with a blank expression. The building they were in was a yellow French Colonial style with white balustrades that had once been the police headquarters in a thriving little river town when the Khmer Rouge had come in and removed everyone to clear some jungle farm where most of them had died. Those who survived had attempted to make a comeback, but hadn’t made much progress. “You were a soldier once. Pitiful. Look at you. A worthless drunk. A disgrace to God and country.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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