Chapter Six – 23 years and 6 months before the collapse
They found they could walk the streets without being searched. Stories emerged on social media of the casualties and the travesties that took place of accidental shootings and those caught in the crossfire. Of the 100,000 weapons that the independence fighters had supposedly smuggled from across the water, the armed forces and police had only recovered 5,000 as part of the official amnesty.
“The cockneys are here eating our food,” Jim heard people complain about the troops. Though they had liberated the city, people already considered them to be an occupying force.
But for now Colonel Finlay Fraser and his troops were in charge, Allen and MacDonald were pages in a history book but Jim feared that if all the government offered to re
