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Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 13

28th November 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Terrible events seldom happen out of the blue. They are the result of a trail of mishaps that culminate in disaster. A trail of mishaps was enacted in the southern border area of Colombia, the [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn-Chapter 12

21st November 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge was in the jungle, part of a team monitoring the Putumayo River crossings, when Rivera next visited the Green Berets’ Main Operating Base. Martinez was standing on the pan, watching the Cessna Caravan taxi [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 11

14th November 2021 Blown Periphery 0

The modern government buildings were located in a new office block off the Avenida Calle 82. Edge was one of the first to arrive and found it shut, so they decamped to a coffee house [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 10

7th November 2021 Blown Periphery 0

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. ― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 9

31st October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge had been on enough operations to know that the work was ninety per-cent routine and ten per-cent sheer terror and exhilaration. Two days later he had gone up in Huey that was doing an [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 8

24th October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge was in the command tent with Martinez, the two Lieutenants and Master Sergeant Wilson. The boiler sent a fog of steam into the cold air and they were all drinking coffee. “Well, we’ve handed [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 7

17th October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge was chatting with the men of The Urban Counter-Terrorism Special Forces Group – Alpha, otherwise known as AFEUR or AFEAU. They were good soldiers, but more at home in the cities of Colombia. They [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 6

10th October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Edge came out of the ablution tent and saw Rivera talking to the pilot, on the far side of the aircraft standing. She was facing him and he waved, but whether she didn’t see him [more…]

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The Colombian Sojourn – Chapter 5

3rd October 2021 Blown Periphery 0

The air coming off the mountains was wonderfully cool. Because of its proximity to the equator, the mean temperature was a constant 27 degrees. It was an ideal country to grow crops, many kinds of [more…]

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