News From the Red Desert (2016)
“Deirdre, the general, the medic and a radioman hung back. The Taliban were coming.
Deirdre thought about the Canadian boys who had been killed when they had been the ambushed, and of the gurgling sound that young man had made as he had bled into the dirt.
Lattice had said that these men approaching them were under the command of the same man who had directed the ambush on the Canadians. The fighters who did that had all been killed, but they would have been known to these ones. Would have eaten... together, trained together, prayed together. They could as easily have been the men that crouched behind that treeline and trained their weapons on those beautiful boys. They would have been pleased to learn of those deaths. Would have prayed for the souls of the martyred. She thought, Kill them. Kill them.
The trail doglegged sharply to the left thirty metres past where the soldiers lay, perhaps eighty metres now from the lead man in the column of Taliban. In the dark, the insurgents had bunched up tightly, so as to not lose track of one another.MoreLess
Deirdre thought about the Canadian boys who had been killed when they had been the ambushed, and of the gurgling sound that young man had made as he had bled into the dirt.
Lattice had said that these men approaching them were under the command of the same man who had directed the ambush on the Canadians. The fighters who did that had all been killed, but they would have been known to these ones. Would have eaten... together, trained together, prayed together. They could as easily have been the men that crouched behind that treeline and trained their weapons on those beautiful boys. They would have been pleased to learn of those deaths. Would have prayed for the souls of the martyred. She thought, Kill them. Kill them.
The trail doglegged sharply to the left thirty metres past where the soldiers lay, perhaps eighty metres now from the lead man in the column of Taliban. In the dark, the insurgents had bunched up tightly, so as to not lose track of one another.MoreLess
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