CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
1:55 p.m. West Africa Time (7:55 a.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Nigerien Air Base 201
Agadez, Niger
Trudy hung up the telephone.
“What did they say?” Luke said.
He was lying on the floor of Trudy and Swann’s dismal command center, his head on his pack. He, Ed, and Dunn had all gotten showers, changes of clothes, and breakfast at the mess hall. Now they were all sprawled out in the command center, waiting to see what was next.
Luke felt awful, exhausted, but he was reluctant to cut anyone loose to catch some shut-eye, especially himself.
“I told them I had you on the line, awaiting instructions for deployment. They said the Situation Room meeting went on a long break. There may have been a classified side meeting that happened in the Oval Office. Either way, the Pr
