““The 40mm high explosive shells he had fired into the truck were enough to hobble a military APC. He had not seriously considered that any members of the British support team would be resilient enough to live this long. He kept his careful aim with the Sig Sauer. The gunman did not like extraneous details. They irritated him. ‘I will ask you again,’ he told the agent. ‘Who is with you?’ If there were others, it would be necessary to deal with them as well. The reply came after a long moment. ‘I’m alone,’ said the other man. ‘You did your job,’ he added bitterly. ‘You killed them all.””
