Scatterlings Of Africa by Peter Davies.
Category: Action & Adventure
Paperback: 346 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 0955440904

"Contact...contact...contact..." the radio crackled into life; it was the dawn patrol. Lieutenant Ron Cartwright could hear the suppressed excitement in the corporal’s voice as he made his report. After nearly two weeks of nothing, this sounded too good to be true. "We’ve picked up a whole bunch of terrorist tracks...and ‘Big Feet’ is with them".

Ron scrambled to his feet, spilling his coffee in the process, and rushed closer to hear more. Shit, if it really was that bastard, Big Feet...

Within minutes he was on a chopper, leading seven picked men from his platoon. The terrs would be on their way to infiltrate the land above the Zambezi Valley, for sure. The area behind the escarpment was occupied by African peasant farmers, where terrorists would rapidly in among the country folk and become difficult to find. After several years of intimidation up there, the poor bastard were now too afraid to report the presence of gandangas to the authorities.

Half an hour later, they jumped from the two hovering Alouettes onto the tracks. Ron made a last check before raising his thumb, signalling to the pilot that all his men were safely deployed on the ground. No time was wasted - dust and dry vegetation flew as rotor blades bit into the air, and Ron got his fighting patrol going. The chase was on."