Book 2

10th – 14th February 2018 – British High Commission Islamabad and MoD Main Building, London Cécile and Phillips were kept under what could only be described as open arrest within the bounds of the High [more…]

8/9th February 2018 – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Washington DC and Islamabad FCO Travel Advice for Pakistan: Local travel The Pakistan authorities currently advise that “all foreigners, including diplomats may not move out of their city of [more…]

6th February 2018 – RAF Northolt Cécile, was in the grip of one of her terrifying, lucid dreams. They had begun not long after her brother and father were killed in an air crash. In [more…]

Afghanistan 041135L February 2018 – 45,000 feet external temperature -56.7 °C The Boeing RC 135 Rivet Joint of the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, was just over two-and-a-half hours into its patrol. It had taken off from [more…]

Fallout Phillips came down to breakfast and saw Cécile sitting on her own reading a newspaper. He was bristling with annoyance, “I thought the agreement was I would come and get you and we would [more…]

RAF Northolt and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels – 1st and 2nd February 2018 Cécile was bored and full of pent up tension, so she decided to do a few circuits of the running track before dinner. As [more…]

Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood, North London – Thursday 1st February 2018 Cécile was driven from RAF High Wycombe with COS Ops, his outer office bag carrier and an MT Driver. They left the A40 before [more…]

RAF Brize Norton Wednesday 17th January 2018 The RAF Regiment Sergeant was waiting for Wing Commander Hammond in the station’s Ground Defence Training Section at 08:30. He was expecting a dried-up and wizened old battle-axe [more…]

Cécile passed the language course with considerable effort on her part. The history and culture aspect she found to be relatively easy and she did surprisingly well in written Arabic, but she struggled on the [more…]