Auteur/autrice : Raulgarth
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🇬🇧 Anecdote 1 — “He…”
Afghanistan — September 6th, 2007, 17:00 In a desert valley, a road winds its way along.Three pickup trucks speed by. In the back of the middle one sits John Keller, a young CIA agent.His hands are tied. His face is bruised.Around him, armed men shout in Arabic and Pashto, laugh, and shove him with the…
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🇬🇧 The Debriefing
Paris, March 2015. Bureau du boulevard Mortier. In a room, a round meeting table, six chairs, five officers.Four of them are angry with the fifth.A camera is pointed at him. — « We are gathered here to determine whether the operation in the Adrar was a success or a fiasco », announces General Armand Delcourt,…
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🇬🇧 The Best Unit
Keller stops on the pavement, facing the building.Before him, the headquarters of The Dark Unit rises with sobriety:The main façade is smooth, glass-covered, slightly curved, reflecting a grey sky.On the left, the building extends into a rectangular hangar clad in anthracite steel, with a perfectly aligned loading dock.Just three metallic letters, TDU, fixed above the…
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🇬🇧 Hassan and His Sons
Birth The sun is at its zenith. The air from the mountains of Wardak descends into the valley. Fork-hoe in hand, Hassan straightens up.Cries of joy echo from his village — a shout, a cry, he is a grandfather!Azim is awaiting his first child.Hassan hastens, abandons the tool and strides quickly towards the family house.…