Chapter Fifteen
The two men we’d seen earlier, burst into the room, pistols raised and pointed straight at me. Teach remained hidden in the shadow of the open door.
Outside, the crowd roared, and the applause grew. The start of the game.
I instinctively raised my hands, partly to calm the men, but partly because I was running on empty and had no better ideas. The revolver hidden at my waistband offered a lifeline, but to unclip it from the holster and line up a shot would take seconds more than I had.
“Easy fellas,” I said.
“We saw you both, so don’t lie,” the leader, ‘Kabul’ barked. “Where is he? The other one.”
“I don’t know who you mean,” I said, trying to buy some time.
They had none to sell.
“Don’t bullshit us,” the second man, ‘Damascus’, spat. “The bald one, we know he’s wor
