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A Ballantine Book The Ballantine Publishing Group
Copyright 1999 by Andy McNab
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IN MEMORY OF EDWARD C.S. HOOPER


OCTOBER 30, 1979-APRIL 15, 1999


CRISIS FOUR


TMOmV, OCTOBER 16. 1995
The Syrians don't fuck around if they think you're invading their air
space. Within minutes of crossing the border, your aircraft will be greeted
by a three-ship intercept, flying so close you can wave at the pilots. They
won't wave back; they've come to get a visual ID on you, and if they don't
like what they see they'll hose you down with their air to-air missiles.
he same rule doesn't apply, of course, when friendly commercial
aircraft blip onto their radar screens, and that was why our team of four
had opted for this particular method of infiltration. If Damascus had had
the slightest clue about what was about to happen aboard our British Airways
flight from Delhi to London, their fighters would have been scrambled the
moment the Boeing 747 left Saudi Arabian territory.
I was twisting and turning, trying to get comfortable, feeling jealous
of all the people sitting upstairs behind the driver, probably on their
fifth gin and tonic since take off, watching their second movie and tucking
into their third helping ofboeufen croute.
Reg 1 was in front of me. Six feet two, and built like a brick