Bandits

I haven't written much lately because I've been feeling rather tired. You see, I lead a secret life during my spare moments. For example last morning I stepped into my bus and said hello to the driver and he replied :

"Dynamo One-One, many bandits at one o'clock, twenty miles high. Chicks at two o'clock, seventy miles. Burner disengage east, Bugout south. Acknowledge."

And out of my mouth came this response:

"Zulu, One-One copies."

I then went on taking a sit on the bus and as soon as I turned my ipod on I received this message:

"Apex, Dynamo, twelve o'clock, fifteen miles.."

Suddenly a bat-wing symbol appeared directly on my mobile phone in front of me on the threat warning scope, well within lethal range, and I got a bright red MISSILE LAUNCH indication and a fast warning tone through my ipod in my ears.
The passenger sitting next to me yelled out:

"Fighter off the nose ! "

I saw him press the button for the bus to stop at the next section.

" Chaff's out ! Vertical Jinks ! " He then said aloud.

I looked through the bus window just in time to see a missile whiz past me and and explode about two hundred yards off the left, close enough to feel the shock wave against the side of the bus.

Then the bus driver called out:

"Dynamo, many bandits twelve o'clock high, twelve miles, line abreast, continue burner east, junk'em and hunker down."

Followed by a new voice.

"Can I see your ticket, please sir ?"

I suddenly snapped out of my book and looked up to see a transport official waiting for me to show him my bus pass . Some of you will be glad to see that I am not totally nuts and for those who still wonders, Yes I do take my medications !

When I was a kid, reading wasn't one of my favourite past times. I just found it boring I guess, on the other hand I loved comic strips, from "Tintin" and "Asterix & Obelix" to the" Marvel comics" and magazines such as "Heavy Metal" where the artists "Moebius", "Corben" and "Druillet" could be found.

Then in my teens, I started reading a bit more, notably a novel by a french author "Patrick Cauvin" called "E=MC2 mon amour", a love story between two gifted 11 years old really showed me how words could make one laugh and cry.

I then went on reading about true life stories relating to world war II, life and death in the Polish ghettos and I found my first saucy yet very tame erotic reading experience in "JAWS" by Peter Benchley.

By my late teens I was a fan of Sci-Fi and enjoyed books by Philip. K. Dick, Lovencraft and Ray Bradbury, I also enjoyed reading philosophy works by Nietzsche. My favourite poet was and still is Arthur Rimbaud.

Then when I came to Australia, I stopped reading because I just didn't have a good enough knowledge of english to get stuck into a novel. A few years went by and one day I picked a cheap novel by an unknown author and thought I'd try to read it in the bus and there's been no stopping me from that day onwards.

Nowadays I tend to read "light" novels, my favourite author is "Nelson De Mille", I find his novels have a good blend of suspense, action and love and mostly a great sense of humour. I've read every single one of his books and loved them all. I like buying cheap paperbacks, usually their authors might not be as well known as "Tom Clancy". "Clive Cussler" or "John Grisham" but it doesn't mean they are bad writers. I just look at the cover art, flick through the pages, and read the short review on the back cover and well sometimes it's a dud and other times I'm very happily surprised.

Right now I'm reading a novel by "Dale Brown" called "Chains of Command", it's about Jet fighers. I rescued this book from being thrown out into the garbage. I don't know much about fighter pilots and it's usually not something that I would have read about, but I have found it difficult to put this book down in the last two weeks since I started it.

Here let me read to you what "Clive Cussler" author of "Sahara" had to say about "Dale Brown".

"...Her hands wrapped around his back, and they kissed. The kiss quickly intensified as both tasted, explored, and sought even more. Her hips briefly moved against him, an unbidden but insistent invitation..."

Oooops ! Sorry wrong page ! ... Let me start again. : P

" Dale Brown is the best military adventure writer in the country today, a master at creating a sweeping epic and making it seem real."

Anyway I've just about finished this 603 pages book and I've got another two books waiting for me...not including the fact I'm on vacuum duty today so I'd better go !