Pirate

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Dinaal Yusef had lived in Bogota for five years before he learned why he had been ordered to begin a completely new life there. He first arrived in the Colombian capital on vacation: or at least that was the way his leaders wanted it to look. In reality he was there to carry out a preliminary assessment of the city. And to ascertain what he needed to do to be able to apply for a resident’s visa. Yusef was a tall, handsome and athletic man in his late twenties, and he was well educated, having attended university in Barcelona, where he had lived for fifteen years. He’d been born and grown up in a small town on the Kashmir border in Pakistan. But a wealthy uncle living in Spain had adopted Dinaal and brought the boy to live with him after his mother and father, a policeman, had been killed in a dawn raid by the Indian army.

In the second week of Dinaal’s month-long visit to Bogota he met a young local girl. He frequented the street café where she waited on tables. After just a few days he’d charmed her, completely turned her head. It had been easy enough for a man of his looks and intelligence to convince the girl, who had left her village only a few months before to find work in the city. It was almost as easy convincing her parents. After a brief but passionate affair, he flew back to Spain promising to return to marry her. Three months later he was as good as his word.

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