Hyena Road Page #5

but I don't know what I'm looking for.

I don't feel like doing a whole

work up just on a hunch.

- You want a visual, I assume.

- Anything with eyes, yeah.

I'll let you know.

Thank you.

Anything useful?

Maybe.

What do I owe you?

I'll take your beer allotment

at the end of the month.

I only get two, same as you.

- And I'll take them both.

- Alright, they're yours.

And you can clear all this

sh*t off. Thanks, Chewey.

Oh yeah, and, uh...

one of these days,

I'm gonna split up

a fire mission,

turn my chair on the backside.

Okay...

Hey, Haji,

what do you got for me?

Oh, it's bad.

It's Bashir's.

You're kidding me.

BDK owns that land?

You're sure?

It's in the record.

Alright, listen, can you get

out to Sper tomorrow?

- Yes, no problem.

- When you're at the gate, if anyone asks,

you're just a contractor,

you're working on a school,

or... I don't know, a f***ing

kite factory or something.

Okay.

Take care, my friend.

Have you had any tenderness

in your breasts,

or nausea or just the spotting?

No, just the spotting.

I'm really managing my cycle.

I haven't had my period

in six months, but...

I don't know,

maybe I missed a pill or...

maybe I'm just being paranoid!

No...

If we find something...

what do we do? You know

I'm supposed to report it.

Well, I'm... asking you

not to. As a friend, okay?

Oh my...

Ugh...

Oh, my God.

Okay...

- How's Joey?

- He's good, you know.

Report card's off the charts.

But he misses the sh*t

out of you.

Oh, come on, honestly.

He really misses me?

Of course he misses you!

F***, I miss you.

- I miss you too, baby.

- How much do you miss me?

Wide-open prairie miss you.

What about these?

You miss them?

Oh, Jesus, you have no idea

how much I miss them.

Hang on...

I had to go back because

this op

was pretty early in the roto.

But yeah, the DETs observed

between 15 and 20 Talis

moving across the field.

Because of the force size,

they didn't engage.

Company command requested

the grid.

They called it in, artillery

beat the sh*t out of them.

There was some fast air

in there as well, right?

Yeah, I believe so.

Two A10s.

- And they destroyed the field?

- That's what Warthogs do.

Well, see, this matters

because, as it turns out,

the field is owned

by Bashir Daoud Khan.

BDK?

See, BDK leases the field to

the farmer, who's basically...

He's like a slave, right?

The farmer works the field,

then at the end

of the poppy season,

he's gotta hand over 5,000 USD.

Whatever he gets

on top of that, he gets to keep,

which is probably like

800 bucks,

somewhere around

the national average.

Now in this particular case,

the Talis go running around

the field,

ISAF blows the sh*t out of it

and the crop is ruined.

And now, well, the farmer,

he's got less than Adam

before the apple.

Well, BDK shows up and goes,

"Hello, where's my 5,000 USD?"

And the farmer says, "Well...

the crop was ruined, you know?

No fault of my own."

BDK says, "I don't give a sh*t,

I'm evil. I will have my $5,000.

And you have X amount

of time to come up with it."

Wow, this guy sounds like

Tony Soprano.

Yeah, but without

the therapist.

We Afghans,

we're not very big on therapy.

Alright, so why are we looking

at this farmer?

His name is Abdul Malik.

His father's name is Haji Malik,

Lion of the Desert.

His father is the Ghost?

Holy sh*t!

We think this is why

the Ghost has returned,

to protect

the honour of his family.

There's some bad history

between BDK and the Ghost.

I don't want things to go

haywire 'cause I want the Ghost,

I want him to work with us,

'cause he can be a powerful ally

for what we're trying

to achieve down here,

maybe we'll actually

get Hyena built.

So where do I fit in?

Well, we think the date

for payment is close, yeah?

Two-three days kinda thing.

So I need eyes on that village,

I need to know

about the comings and goings,

the who, the what,

all that kind of thing.

I got my snipers spread

all over the area of operation,

but I can redeploy,

rotate the DETs,

two days on, two days off

sort of thing, starting tonight.

Outstanding!

- You ever try a date?

- No, thank you.

Baby please don't go

Oh oh oh

Baby please don't go

Oh oh oh

You got dimples in your jaw

Oh oh oh

You got dimples in your jaw

Oh oh oh

You got dimples in your jaw

And that ain't all

baby please don't go

- Comm check.

- Check.

Right.

Comm check to Wilf.

Check! Roger you.

- AKA training magnet?

- Check.

- AKA I smell a sh*t.

- Check.

AKA douchebag.

Hey hey little girl

Hey little girl

Hey hey little girl

Hey little girl

Ooh

Hey hey little girl

Hey hey little girl

Hey little girl

Hey hey little girl

Hey little girl

Baby please don't go

Don't go baby

Baby please don't go

baby please don't go

Baby please don't go

baby please don't go

Baby please don't go

baby please don't go...

Brr!

You seen anything, Tank?

- Negative.

- Alright, take a break.

Roger that.

Hey, buds.

Is there something

you wanna tell me?

Perry Como? In a combat zone?

- It was on shuffle.

- Unacceptable.

Completely inappropriate.

You know,

I've been thinking about...

what you said about changing

everything with one bullet.

You really believe that?

Yeah, I believe that.

I'm here, aren't I?

Yeah, yeah.

Look at this.

Okay, what the f*** is this?

I'm a terrible dancer.

You're an unbelievably bad dancer.

But I'm a great shot,

and I've always been,

ever since I was a kid.

It might've been irresponsible

to put a weapon in my hand,

but people would get

hunting licences,

they didn't even have a gun,

just so that I could hunt

on their behalf.

I used to shoot

hard-to-shoot game,

put food on people's tables

when times were hard.

Sir? Captain Bowman

wants to see you both.

We're on.

Three Niner Alpha,

this is 66 Bravo.

66 Bravo, Three Niner Alpha

send, over.

66 Bravo. We got a convoy

heading our way, over.

Three Niner Alpha,

describe the convoy.

66 Bravo, three white

Suburbans coming in fast.

Looks like they're up-armoured.

Over.

Three Niner Alpha,

what's happening in the village?

66 Bravo, all is quiet, over.

They're not ready,

they got no... Goddamn it!

- Okay, what's going on here?

- I don't know yet.

Get everyone up.

Roger.

Holy sh*t. 66 Bravo, we got

two VIPs exiting the vehicle.

First 40s, black hair,

bad dye job, beady little eyes.

Can he confirm VIP is BDK?

66 Bravo, Three Niner Alpha,

is VIP BDK? Can you confirm?

66 Bravo confirming.

VIP call sign Bravo Delta Kilo.

Second civ Hamid Walid Khan,

call sign Hotel Whisky Kilo.

Three Niner Alpha,

this is 66 Bravo.

We've got Taliban,

counting four.

He's got Talis with him?

A guy like BDK plays

both sides of the fence.

66 Bravo, Three Niner Alpha,

do you have clearance?

Are they carrying weapons?

Wednesdays-Fridays

he's with us,

Tuesdays-Thursdays,

he's with the Talis,

and on days off,

they're both running narcotics.

66 Bravo,

negative, no weapons,

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