NOT ON OUR WATCH
Chapter One
Challenges and Choices
It was sometime round midnight in a little village in southern Sudan, and the
only link to the rest of the world within a five-hundred-mile radius was one
satellite phone, so when it rang it was a bit of a shock to everyone.
Don dispensed with the formalities. "My man, you are not easy to find."
"Obviously, hiding from you is not as easy as I thought," John countered.
Despite his attempt at a cool demeanor, John was excited. After Marlon Brando
and Mickey Rourke (John is well aware that he has issues), Don was his favorite
actor, and the fact that the two of them were about to go on a trip together to
Chad and across the border into the western Sudanese region of Darfur was firing
him up.
However, Don wasn't making a social call. He was concerned that the mission
that we were going on with a bunch of members of Congress was only going to
spend several hours in the refugee camps in Chad, and he wanted to stay longer.
"You gotta rescue it," Don instructed John.
John looke ... read full excerpt from: Not on Our Watch ebook
