“The night quickly engulfed the men. Firefox called out for them. He needed to do a roll call. He couldn't see anyone. Come closer. Put your hands on my head.
“The night quickly engulfed the men. Firefox called out for them. He needed to do a roll call. He couldn't see anyone. Come closer. Put your hands on my head. From his head, he counted the hands of his men, sliding his own hand down to their arms as if to make sure they were connected to bodies. One. Two. Three, Four. Five. They were all there and alive. Together they prayed quietly, this time holding each other's hand. They wept choking on their tears.
Details such as these peppered the narrative, making the reader feel like it was a script straight out of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, what with curtains ripping from the volume of gunfire as the soldiers crouched behind a steadily disintegrating wall, Molotov bombs exploding and setting the house with soldiers inside on fire, and soldiers being torn in half by enemy gunfire.
The book starts with a series of separate encounters, starting with the planned arrest of Isnilon Hapilon, at that time the head of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf and designated emir of the Islamic State group in the Philippines. Hapilon occupied the highest position in the government’s most wanted list.
Just like how the book points everything to one direction about a third of the way, the military's operation in the 5-month battle in Marawi finally sets a direction with the establishment by around August of Trident, a tactical grouping of all the units on the ground in Marawi. [itals] “Bullets flew over their heads in a hail of gunfire. From the cackle of the radio coming from the other house, Firefox heard the private there breaking the news over the radio. His voice was filled with shock and dread. ‘There are young boys with guns. They are marching toward us.
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