Chapter 3
BITTER CHOICE
Brigitte Bonnet and her two guards lead Juin down the long corridor where the lamps have now been relit.
As they walk, he hears again that desperate scream of a man. Juin has served long in the Foreign Legion. He has seen much blood and much cruelty. He has powerlessly watched how the old Arab women can torture Legionnaires. He has heard them scream, but it was not as dreadful as this scream.
And apparently, it is only one man screaming.
He screams like a trapped animal. It is an outcry of anger and pain simultaneously, of rebellion and torture, and of powerlessness and resistance.
“You must be very curious about what is going on here, Lieutenant Juin?” she asks, smiling over her shoulder at him. “However, we will not go into that tonight. I assume you are tir
