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The Sherpas cook us a simple lentil curry which we eat with small
slabs of naan, their traditional flatbread. Rather, I attempt to eat,
but visions of Elizabeth being murdered atop the diamond deposit is too much to
take for my heart and stomach. When the plates are cleared, Rudy and Anjali
retire to their tents. I need to keep myself busy or I’ll think too much.
Remember too much. Which means Tony and I look over a topo map of the jungle
and work on our plan for stealing the kid away from Kashmiri.
With the topo map laid out before us,
I match up the GPS coordinates retrieved from the drone to the precise area on
the map where both the diamond mine and the Thuggee encampment and tunnel are
located. Turns out, we’re talking an area the size of several football fields,
which
