Warlord. James Steel

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      James Steel

      Warlord

      Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      WARLORD. Copyright © James Steel 2011. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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      James Steel asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Source ISBN: 9781847561619

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780007443291

      Version: 2018-07-23

      Epigraph

      ‘There is no book on the Congo, we must write one ourselves.’

      Congo Mercenary

       Colonel Mike Hoare,

       Commander of 5 Commando mercenary regiment,

       deployed in eastern Congo, 1964.

      Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

       Epigraph

      Map

      In the Beginning

      Chapter One

      Eve Mapendo sees the figure lit by moonlight.

      Chapter Two

      ‘We are going to make a new country, Mr Devereux.’

      Chapter Three

      Alex is struggling to get a grip on the scale…

      Chapter Four

      ‘Come on, we’ve got to hurry up.’

      Chapter Five

      ‘You stink of piss.’

      Chapter Six

      Sophie’s car pulls up to the barrier and the soldier…

      Chapter Seven

      The megaphone crackles and squawks, ‘Move up!’ and Eve dutifully…

      Chapter Eight

      Alex taps the end of a wedge into a log…

      Chapter Nine

      ‘Hello, hello, welcome to Panzi hospital! My name is Mama…

      Chapter Ten

      ‘You are joking, Devereux! You are joking! You’ve lost it,…

      Chapter Eleven

      Eve is lying on her back on a gynaecological examination…

      Chapter Twelve

      Alex and his men walk up the hill towards their…

      Chapter Thirteen

      Rukuba finishes his speech to Team Devereux and a strange…

      Chapter Fourteen

      Gabriel watches the bare legs of Patrice, the FDLR soldier,…

      Chapter Fifteen

      Alex continues his talk to the Chinese, Rwandan and Kivuan…

      Chapter Sixteen

      Gabriel is stuck in the narrow tunnel, underwater and in…

      Chapter Seventeen

      Matt Hooper is a newly commissioned sergeant in the Kivu…

      Chapter Eighteen

      A huge explosion comes from his right and Jason Hall…

      The Promised Land

      Chapter Nineteen

      The two undercover Unit 17 men have been hanging around…

      Chapter Twenty

      Alex is standing in front of another group of people.

      Chapter Twenty-One

      While the troops wait by the helicopters, Zacheus is lying…

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Zacheus lies in the bush and waits for the rockets…

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      Alex hangs on as Demon 6 flares and they decelerate…

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      Further back along the ridge Alex is collecting Tac, Zacheus…

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      ‘He’s so sweet.’ Eve lets the fat baby boy get…

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      ‘Beelzebub, this is Black Hal, do you copy, over?’

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      The slight, middle-aged man wears a cheap suit and an…

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      A heavy explosion shakes Gabriel awake at two a.m.

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Dieudonné Rukuba stands in front of a large audience seated…

      Chapter Thirty

      Joseph squats on the ground and looks up as eleven…

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Eve looks out over the elegant hotel dining room packed…

      Chapter Thirty-Two

      Sophie points Alex towards the large grass field just inside…

      The End of Days

      Chapter Thirty-Three

      The United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,…

      Chapter Thirty-Four

      Gabriel heaves himself off the back of the old blue…

      Chapter Thirty-Five

      ‘Well, welcome to Heaven,’ Alex says, spreading his hands and…

      Chapter Thirty-Six

      Joseph sits on the ground in the new detention facility…