CHAPTER 27: AMBUSH
Gaziantep, Turkey
Near the Syrian Border
8:15 PM
The city was a staging ground for the Syrian conflict, filled with refugees and fighters and people who existed in the spaces between the wars that had been fought for generations and would be fought for generations more. Jack moved through its streets with the caution of a man who knew he was being watched, his eyes scanning the windows, the doors, the shadows that seemed to move with a life of their own. The streets were narrow, the buildings old, the people few, the silence deep. The city was waiting. It had been waiting for years, for the war that would end, for the peace that would come, for the moment when the guns would fall silent and the people who had been fighting for so long would finally be able to go home
