Secret Warriors (Men at War 2)

"I got left behind too. I'm one of the good guys, Jimmy."

"You're doing fine, Canidy," Baker said angrily.

"Keep it up."

"Why not?" Canidy said.

"This way you can tell Doug lass and Donovan that I was the one who told him all the secrets and you had nothing to do with it."

"So tell me a secret," Whittaker said.

"Things have been a little dull around here."

"Eric Fulmar is close to an important man in Morocco," Canidy said.

"We want to use that again.

We used him once."

"So he told me," Whittaker said.

"And if you ask him to do the same thing again, being a reasonable man of average intelligence, he's going to tell you to go fuck yourselves."

"If he does, then both of you stay here," Baker said. "You just can't do that," Whittaker flared. "We can, Jimmy," Canidy said.

"And we will. Whittaker looked at him. "I notice you said 'we,' Dick," he said.

"Yeah, I said 'we," Canidy said.

"I'm part of this."

"Otherwise you get locked up, too?"

"Partly that," Canidy said.

"And partly because I think that what we're doing is so important that the usual rules don't apply."

"What's got me pissed off," Whittaker said, "is that just as soon as got home, they start treating me like the enemy."

"You got between Marshall and MacArthur," Canidy said.

"You were an innocent bystander who got caught in the line of fire.

Nobody thinks you're the enemy."

"That's why there)s a fence over the window and an MP outside, right?

"We've come with the authority to take you out of here, Captain Whittaker," Baker said. "What's the price?" 44you heard it," Canidy said.

"You volunteer for the classic dangerous, secret mission, like Errol Flynn."

"I couldn't just go back to flying fighters?" Whittaker asked.

"Not any more than I can," Canidy said. "Okay," Whittaker said after a moment's thought.

"What the hell." He saluted Canidy, crisply but mockingly.

"I await my orders, Sir, and stand prepared to give my all for our noble cause. Whatever the hell that might be."