Lion Resurgent
“The truck had careered off the road at the start of the acute right-hand bend and hit the line of rocks that marked the start of the dip to the peat march below. The impact with those rocks had ruptured its fuel tank and caused the wreckage to be soaked with diesel fuel. The truck had ended its ride down the slope with its nose in the peat. There, the spilled diesel had ignited. Somehow, it had caught fire.That was a bit of a mystery right there. Diesel fuel wasn‘t supposed to burn like that. A... mystery? Major Patricio Dowling sneered to himself at the suggestion. He was rapidly coming to the conclusion that petroleum-based fuels and the Argentine armed forces didn’t mix very well. The three weeks that had elapsed since the invasion had been one long litany of accidents a good majority of which involved the negligent handling of fuel. Leaking fuel drams, ruptured pipelines, careless spills igniting; one incident after another. He looked up at the glowering bulk of Sapper’s Hill that overlooked the scene of the wreck.MoreLess
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