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Secret War in Arabia
SHAUN CLARKE
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First published in Great Britain by 22 Books/Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1993
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Source ISBN: 9780008154882
Ebook Edition © November 2015 ISBN: 9780008154899
Version: 2015-10-15
Contents
OTHER TITLES IN THE SAS OPERATION SERIES
Framed by the veils of his Arab shemagh, the guerrilla’s face was good-humoured, even kindly. This made it all the more shocking when he expertly jabbed his thin-bladed knife through Sa’id’s eyelid and over the top of his eyeball, twisting it downward to slice through the optic nerve at the back of the retina and gouge the eye from its socket.
The old man’s pain was indescribable, exploding throughout his whole being, drawing from him a scream not recognizably human and making him shudder and strain frantically against his tight bonds. Glancing down through the film of tears in his remaining eye, he saw his own eyeball staring up at him from the small pool of blood in the guerrilla’s hand.
‘Will you now renounce your faith?’ the guerrilla asked. ‘What say you, old man?’
Racked with pain and disbelief, his heart racing too quickly,
