CHAPTER FORTY SIX
8:16 pm West Africa Time (2:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Nigerien Air Base 201
Agadez, Niger
“Did that just happen?” Trudy said.
Swann stared into his glowing green screen, manipulating a joystick with his right hand, tapping several buttons on his keyboard.
“Yeah, it happened.”
Trudy had seen the chopper hit the water. She didn’t want to think about what had happened inside the chopper when that happened. She didn’t want to think about what was going on inside the chopper as it sank beneath the ocean. She steeled her mind against it. She focused on the present moment instead.
“What are you going to do?” she said.
“I’m coming back around. I’m not sure what I’m going to do.”
“Why didn’t you bomb them?” she said.
Swann shook his head. “I couldn’t bomb them, Tru
