“Please come on out now, I am appealing to you as a fellow officer.”
Gareg hung up.
“How many men are in the house?” Major Harris asked one of his captains.
“It is very hard to say, sir. We are not getting a good reading on the thermal imagers.”
“Why ever not?”
“It could be a number of things, sir. For a start, the walls of that old farmhouse could be three or four feet thick of solid rock or possibly with a clay cavity infill. We will not get a reliable reading through that sort of obstruction. Then, they could have the heating turned up to max so that there is not enough of a discrepancy for the imager to form a picture. Or it could be both. See for yourself, sir.
“Sometimes it looks as if people are moving about, but the forms are so indistinct that it’s like watching ghosts in a
