CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
9:05 a.m. West Africa Time (3:05 a.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Nigerien Air Base 201
Agadez, Niger
“The National Academy of Geosciences,” Trudy began.
She was hot and tired. There was no air conditioning anywhere on the base, as far as she could tell. The rooms in this building were stuffy and became explosively hot as the day wore on. Her body just wouldn’t adjust to the heat. She and Swann slept on hard, narrow bunk beds in an empty barracks that reeked of some sort of lemony antiseptic.
Between the discomfort of the bed, the heat, the smell, and the fact that Stone and Ed were fighting in an African wilderness four hundred miles away… well, she had hardly slept at all. The fact that Swann had snored and snorted like a Mack truck half the night didn’t help any, ei
