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Nefta, Tunisia. May 25, 3.24am
Jake lay on his belly on a sand dune overlooking the citadel and the sparse camp below. After meeting the backup team, they had crossed over the border from Algeria and were now almost in position. The small group of men were led by Jared Rush, one of ARKANE’s senior agents in Africa and a man Jake trusted as a brother.
It was good to be out in the field again.
Jake knew that the city of Nefta was often busy with tourists but only the militants would come this far out at night. The citadel or ‘ribat’ was one of the fortifications used during the military occupation of North Africa by the Muslim empire. Ribats were built all across this part of the world and had been used as outposts for soldiers. These days they were occupied by a new brand of extremis
