Tenth Man Down

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I wish to give special thanks to all my family and friends for their patience and understanding. To my agent, Barbara Levy; also to Mark Booth, Liz Rowlinson, Katie White and Rachael Healey and all the team at Century.

203 — Combination 5.56 calibre automatic rifle (top barrel) and 40 mm grenade launcher below

.50 — Heavy machine gun

AK47 — Russian-made 7.62 calibre automatic rifle

Colt .45 — American automatic pistol

Galil — Israeli-made 7.62 automatic rifle

Milan post — Vehicle-mounted missile launcher

RPG7 — Russian-made rocket launcher

Typical Welsh autumn weather. The rain was just heavy enough to be annoying. If I kept the wipers going, even intermittently, they created smears, and whenever I switched them off, the windscreen soon became thickly beaded with water. Driving in those conditions was a pain. Tim was fidgeting about, twisting in his seat, punching the buttons on the stereo. Instead of looking out of the window and taking an interest in the mountains, he kept fiddling with the sound system, trying to get track five on his new Robbie Williams CD. There was something wrong with the player, which kept stalling, but he wouldn’t let it alone, so we got endless jumping of tracks and burst after burst of disjointed screeching.

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