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    Captain Cat
    Captain Cat
    Captain Cat
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    Captain Cat

    By David Shaw

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    This is an audio script.

    A young British special forces soldier is blinded in Afghanistan. Luckily for him he meets a very special kind of nurse. One who's prepared to do everything a woman can to help a man fight his own despair. But has she found the key to a whole new life for him, a career beyond belief?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Shaw
    Release dateFeb 9, 2010
    ISBN9781452332765
    Captain Cat
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    David Shaw

    David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, as well as translating from several languages, including German, Dutch, Russian, and French. He lives in Berlin.

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      Captain Cat - David Shaw

      CAPTAIN CAT

      (An audio script)

      By

      David Shaw

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 David Shaw

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      THIS AUDIO SCRIPT HAS ADULTS ONLY CONTENT

      DAVE DAVENPORT -- NARRATION

      Hi, I'm Dave Davenport. I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing.

      That's the last desperate line of a comedian dying on stage, isn't it? Well, no kind of a symbolic death frightens me. Not now. A few months ago I came very close to dying in the only way that matters, in a very easy place to do it: Afghanistan.

      It was my first deployment overseas. In fact, it was my first overseas trip anywhere. It turned out to be a back packing holiday in hell.

      We knew we were going to Afghanistan, of course, as soon as we were badged into the Regiment. We had briefings about the country, we talked to people who'd already fought against the Taliban, we read all the available intelligence files. But in the end it didn't make any difference. Not to two of us, anyway. We ran up against an Afghan who saw us first and shot first. One holy warrior and one bullet, but he did for me and my mate Jason Brand with it.

      We were leading scouts for our section, advancing to contact through a re-entrant that was barely two metres wide, with the rising sun behind us but still below the mountain peaks. Somewhere up ahead, maybe three hundred metres away, somebody fired a single round. I don't know whether the man behind the sights was Taliban, Al Quaeda, a drug dealer, a poppy farmer, whatever. Maybe he was simply an Afghan who didn't like foreigners in his country. Just like every other Afghan.

      Whatever and whoever he was, the bastard could shoot straight.

      (F/X: whip crack of bullet close by, ricochets, a man screams)

      DAVE DAVENPORT

      Jason! Jason! I'm down! I can't see!

      (F/X: Men moving, orders shouted: "Smoke! Give me smoke! Move forward. Medic, up here! Gabble of orders coming over a static filled radio network.)

      DAVE DAVENPORT -- NARRATION

      The bullet hit Jason's head and blew it apart like a turnip blasted by a 12 bore shotgun. I was two metres back, one metre to one side, and fragments of Jason's skull were blown into both of my eyes. Some of the smaller pieces are still inside them. Maybe I should leave instructions in my will that when I die there needs to be a double funeral. One for me and one for the bits of Jason I'll take into my grave with me.

      Mark

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