STORM FROM THE SHADOWS — snippet 18
STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 18:
Chapter Five
The face in Aivars Terekhov's mirror was thinner and gaunter than the one he remembered. In fact, it reminded him of the one he'd seen when he'd been repatriated to Manticore as a returning prisoner-of-war. The last two months might not have been as bad as that nightmare experience, but they — and especially the last six and a half weeks of them — had still left their imprint, and his blue eyes searched their own reflection as if seeking some omen of the future.