Solid Gold (Unseen Enemy 8)
He looked down at his ring, and he knew that the thick platinum band with the thin stripes of gold was beautiful for more than one reason: it was beautiful for what it hid, not what it showed.
Engraved inside, pressed against his warm skin, was the date of a young boy’s death written in Arabic, and a palm holding a flame. ‘Tahir’ meant ‘pure, virtuous’, and in Jim’s mind, that was Tahir. He’d never forget the boy’s attempts to alert Jim to his mother’s plans, he’d never forget that the boy had been blown up in his mother’s suicide bombing of the American Embassy, he’d never forget that Tahir had died because Jim had failed him.
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