17 JOHN’S PAPERSRonnie stayed in Tony’s spare room, and Daisy found that she had to do more hours flying while he was there, but loved having him around and didn’t mind. She found him funny and cheerful despite the obviously serious injuries that he had suffered to his back. She didn’t know about his previous occupation, didn’t ask and wasn’t told.
The fact was that Ronnie had been the explosives expert in a c***k SAS advance reconnaissance unit in Syria until an IRD had put him out of active service for good, or ‘hors de combat’, as he liked to say, ten years previously They’re unit had also flown drones, which were new to the British Army back then, and it was Ronnie who had suggested to his friend Tony to get the Baltimores to buy a couple, since he had known what his job with them had
