Necessary Force

After wrapping up One Guerrilla Force (Parachute), Force N operations following the liberation of the Abyssinian capital, Addis Abba Major Randal goes on leave in Cairo. Lieutenant Pamala Plum-Martin, OBE, RM, is graduating from the Royal Air Force Number Four Service flying training school located at RAF Habbaniya, 50 miles south of Baghdad. Special Operations Executive James "Baldie" Taylor invites Major Randal to fly up to attend her graduation and get in some hunting for white oryx. They arrive at the same time Libyan rebel troops loyal to the Golden Square occupy the escarpment outside the RAF base and lay it to siege.