Returning from what was to have been an "honorable defeat" McInnes finds himself the center of a media firestorm over a supposed threat he made to the newly recognized dictator of M’Benda.

His hope of going home to his wife and daughter are in jeopardy and his only way to avoid deployment to the Balkans is to claim unfitness for duty.

Here is Part 2 of "A Simple Prop" by Jay Smith, read by Ayoub Khote with music by Kevin MacLeod and mastered by Michael L Stokes.

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