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Copyright 1999 by Andy McNab

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Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, a division of
Transworld Publishers, in 1999.

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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
shithouse, he was probably having an even worse time in the cramped