Maxine Stone s New LifeChapter 368
If I couldn't talk the government into calling the attack off, then it might be a rogue officer leading his unknowing men into battle. Something like an even worse version of the Captain, who I had met earlier. If I could keep the army from backing his play, then maybe we could hold them off until the real Army came to rescue us. It was as good a possibility, as was three men and a skinny woman slipping off into the Jungle, and then fighting there way to a friendly border crossing. Since...