From Eradication: A Fable, which will be published by Doubleday this month. What the two men wanted to know—the gunpoint question they kept shouting at him over and over again—was whether Adi was government. No, Adi kept saying, no, trying but plainly failing to explain the distinction between a government and a multinational nonprofit foundation. Only when he said I’m just here to shoot the goats did the shouting finally ebb.