CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
2:20 p.m. West Africa Time (8:20 a.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Nigerien Air Base 201
Agadez, Niger
“Listen to what he says here,” Trudy said.
“Trudy, I’m trying to keep an eye on this village,” Swann said. “While simultaneously trying to monitor these troop movements to the east on the Chad border.”
Trudy shook her head. Swann was always like that. He liked to do one thing at a time. Watching a village and troop movements constituted at least two separate activities in Swann’s mind—possibly more—even though both things were taking place on a video screen two feet from his face.
“Well, watch the village, and the troops, but listen to this.”
Swann sat at a metal desk, flying an MQ-9 Reaper drone high above Sambisa Forest. He held a joystick controller in one hand, an
