by Mack Maloney
Released from the chokehold, Yaz and the man stared at each other for a moment, trying to figure out where they had seen each other before.
“You’re a pilot,” Yaz said suddenly, as if the thought had magically appeared in his brain. “Back at Suez … you helped pull me from the water …”
The man looked at him closely and started shaking his head.
“Your name …” Yaz continued. “It’s … Elvis.”
The man shook his head and put his sunglasses back on.
“You’re nuts, mac,” he said briskly. “Now get your ass in gear and get that goddamn soup out of here.”
With that the man climbed out of the truck, fiddled around at the back of the truck, then disappeared.
Using the crowbar, the other driver and Yaz lowered the rest of the pots to the ground.
The job done, the truck quickly pulled away, the man who Yaz had recognized behind the wheel.
Yaz shook his head. Maybe he was mistaken, but the driver looked exactly like one of the pilots who had come to the rescue of the survivors of the aircraft carrier that had sunk during the battle of the Suez Canal. Yaz had only seen the man briefly at the time, yet his wavy, jelly-roll haircut and rock star looks were unmistakable.
He shrugged it off and went to pick up his gang’s soup pot. That’s when he saw that something had been scribbled in the loose dirt next to where the truck had been parked.
It was a single letter and Yaz had to stare at it for a few moments before its meaning started to sink in. When it did, he immediately knew that he was right in identifying the driver.
Using the heel of his boot, the man had scratched out a large “W” in the dirt …
About the Author
Mack Maloney is the author of numerous fiction series, including Wingman, Chopper Ops, Starhawk, and Pirate Hunters, as well as UFOs in Wartime: What They Didn’t Want You to Know. A native Bostonian, Maloney received a bachelor of science degree in journalism at Suffolk University and a master of arts degree in film at Emerson College. He is the host of a national radio show, Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files.
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These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Wingman copyright © 1987 by Mack Maloney
The Circle War copyright © 1987 by Mack Maloney
The Lucifer Crusade copyright © 1987 by Mack Maloney
Cover design by Amanda Shaffer
ISBN: 978-1-5040-4739-5
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