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The man didn’t answer, but shone a phone torch on the unmasked face. A pair of empty blue eyes stared straight up out of a pale pink freeze-framed face. Ed looked away. It was his first dead body, a massive crater where the man’s left ear had been. He looked back to the shooter. ‘So who are you?’

Tom Buckingham reached down and replaced the mask over the lifeless face. ‘Nobody.’

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GLOSSARY

ACU	Army Combat Uniform
ANA	Afghan National Army
Bergen	Full size British Army combat rucksack
Bradley	US-made armoured fighting vehicle Desert rose British Army slang for a crude urinal comprising a large tin with the top removed and the bottom perforated.
DSF	Director of Special Forces in the UK Hesco barrier A collapsible wire-mesh container and heavy-duty fabric liner, which can be filled with sand or rubble and used as a barrier against explosions or small-arms.
ISAF	International Security Assistance Force, a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established in 2001 by the UN Security Council. Its main purpose is to train Afghan National Security forces and assist in rebuilding key government institutions. It is also engaged in the war with insurgent groups.
ISO container	A shipping and storage container. ISO stands for International Standards Organization.
MPV	Multi-purpose vehicle
MTP	Multi-Terrain Pattern; a camouflage pattern printed on equipment issued to British forces.
NVs	Night-vision goggles
OBL	Osama Bin Laden
One-star	Brigadier general in the US Army
PE	Plastic explosive
POTUS	President of the United States of America
PSNI	Police Service of Northern Ireland
RPG	Rocket-propelled grenade
RTU	Returned to unit
SCO19	Metropolitan Police Service Specialist Firearms Command
Shura	Arabic word for ‘consultation’; used to describe a tribal gathering.
SO6	Metropolitan Police Service Diplomatic Protection Group
UNHCR	United Nations refugee agency WO2 Warrant Officer class 2

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