Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which will be released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its complete release on Amazon later this spring.
March 10, 2024, Las Claritas, Bolívar, Venezuela
“Are the men ready, Hector?” asked the commander with an impatient scowl.
“Si, coronel,” came a simpering response.
The commander scoffed inwardly at his adjutant’s subservience. Mayor Hector Carvajal had achieved his rank through favor rather than merit, an all-too-frequent occurrence in the Ejército Bolivariano, the land force of the Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, or National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. Carvajal was only 29, a slight little man from a good family in a good section of Caracas, the capital, and he’d attended the best schools and then the Academia Militar del Ejército Bolivariano, the army’s military academy at Fort Tiuna in the capital.
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