“Where’d you get this?”
“Foreign Legion.”
He squeezed the pouch again and didn’t stop until it was a wad, all wrung out. “Un-fucking-real. The French get to eat this every day?”
I nodded and then remembered he couldn’t see it. “Yeah. And they get booze in their rations. Wine.”
“That’s it,” Ox said. “I’m going AWOL, join up with the Legion. You, rube, are welcome in my tunnel.”
And just like that, I was in the fold.
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Copyright © 2011 by T.C. McCarthy
Excerpt from Germline copyright © 2011 by T.C. McCarthy
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First eBook edition: April 2011
ISBN: 978-0-316-19116-6