“I didn’t say I would.” He was still studying the diagram. “Troops?”

“Eighty-four soldiers located at the main camp.” She pointed to a square south of the helicopter pad. “They occupy sleeping bags in this area of the clearing when they’re not on sentry duty.”

“Prisoners?”

She pointed to one of two long tents running the length of the encampment. “This is the main prisoner tent. There’s a side entrance that leads out into the main camp and another the guards on duty use at the far south end to prepare their food and make sure the girls are kept away from the soldiers.” She added bitterly, “Unless Masenak decides to reward one of his men and lets him have his choice for a night. Otherwise, only Masenak and Baldwin are allowed to rape them.” She shook her head to clear it of that horror of ugliness and get back to reporting something that might help. “The tents are wired with explosives, and Masenak always carries the remote detonator to set them off.”

“Do you know what kind of explosives?”

“Of course I do. It’s a co-crystal of HMX and CL-20. Powerful but stable. I asked Sasha to go into the tent and get the info while she visited the other students. The girls are chained to posts inside the tents. Forty-one in the first one. Only six in the second. There used to be ten more in that second tent, but they killed the one girl to set an example and Sasha said Masenak sent the other girls as gifts to chiefs in Sudan.” She frowned. “She said she tried to find out exactly where they were sent, but she’s only located four of them.”

“Sasha, again. Who the hell is this Sasha?”

“She’s one of the students Masenak is holding captive in that camp. She’s just fifteen years old, and her name is Sasha Nalano.” She tried to keep her voice steady. “And she’s probably going to be next on Masenak’s kill list if I don’t stop him. She’s angry, and she won’t listen to us all the time. I don’t know long she can take what’s happening to her friends in that camp. You heard Margaret—she’s on the edge.”

“I heard it, but I didn’t understand it. I still don’t understand it. Why would this particular student be singled out?”