Bird SongChapter 17 Up periscope
19:59, 15 August Assam knew he would have to hit the hotel before the Chinese teenagers became too unnerved at their missing friend. He watched the front of the hotel from across the street where his surveillance team had been based and was pleased to see there was no one keeping watch on the entrance. "Too easy, it's like taking candy from a baby," he thought to himself. He had a combined force of twenty heavily armed men and teenagers with him and he planned to storm the hotel and...