CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Lawrence got off the forest and crossed over to the other side of the road. He joined Kotara where he took cover, behind broad green leaves of a freshly broken off heavy tree branch. “Perfect hideout.” Kotara shoved aside a leaf from his face, “These things come quite naturally for an experienced...
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE “Christian, you should not take this the wrong way, Joe was only being extra careful, he does not mean to underrate your arrow boys,” Lawrence tried to extinguish a little fire before it got out of hand. Joseph added to his effort, “I understand how much we need them, I only think...
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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Kotara had a different idea, “This is how we know if he has a hidden agenda. If we ask him to join and he says to us, ‘Yeepee.’ picks up his bow and arrows and says, ‘let us go kill us some LRA rats,’ then we know something is not right. But...
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE It does however appear to Joseph that Hussein liked listening to himself talk rapidly; sounding like he knew everything everyone else didn’t and had the only workable key to everyone’s biggest problems. “Dialogue is good,” Joseph said. “Yeah, when you have it with your head right. These government guys are not thinking...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE When the darkness had finally thickened and there were only three buses waiting to be loaded with passengers that were sparingly showing up, Joseph decided it was almost impossible to find Hussein if he ever arrives. He walked up to a certain bus driver to inquire if there would be another bus...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN After a short while, the surveillance man sitting limply on the tree branch took down his gun and began to climb down. At his command, the other two on trees also started descending. At that instant a gun went off from Kotara’s side and Joseph looked quickly. The man climbing down the...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE It was not too far ahead. It was a sight that screamed impossibility. And impossibility was a word that must not be allowed to exist in Joseph’s vocabulary. Not if he wants his Mosunga moment so bad. It was a marshland that stretched through fifty feet of their path. It ran parallel...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Later in the evening, Joseph and Lawrence were eating supper. They were seated side by side and their yellow flamed kerosene lamps sat in front of them. Joseph began to explain. “As you would know, the most common trade in this region is hunting and that meant that blacksmiths and all the...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Lawrence wrinkled his forehead; Joseph on the other hand kept a calm gaze on Kotara. “The biggest problem we can ever imagine is here, right here in our hands.” “What problem, please?” Joseph asked. “That your man is a CIA, Commission of Investigation Authority.” “It is the Central Intelligence Agency,” Lawrence corrected. ...
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CHAPTER NINETEEN Hussein did not give a response instantly, he pondered on a thought for about forty seconds during which Joseph’s answer-searching gaze never left his face. “Joseph, what if I told you I’m not really a reporter?” “Well,” Joseph shrugged, “then I will say I am not surprised.” “What if I told you...