Tom Clancy Under Fire
“While the SIS man would want Koikov’s place of execution to be traceable to Medzhid, if pressed for time or alerted they were onto him, Wellesley might bypass this element and simply kill Koikov and let the presence of dead pro-Medzhid officers serve as proof enough.
The surreality of the situation suddenly hit Jack: The possible success or failure of Dagestan’s attempt to break free of Valeri Volodin and the Russian Federation now rested on the fate of a sickly, retired politsiya sergeant ...who was until a few days ago thought to be dead. Koikov probably had no idea that he’d become the most important man in the whole country.
• • • ASSUMING KOIKOV’S KIDNAPPERS had continued north after Dom had lost them in Bakhtemir, Seth and Spellman began hunting for a location in Dagestan’s northern lowlands that could be connected directly to Medzhid or at least to the MOI.
There were four possibilities, Spellman told Jack a few hours later: a currently unmanned training base for politsiya armored vehicle units outside Bakhtemir; the decommissioned Rybozavad Naval Base for Caspian flotilla patrol boats now under the guardianship of the Ministry; a two-hundred-acre stretch of tidal marshes outside Suyutkino that Medzhid’s predecessor had appropriated as a private duck-hunting preserve; and an abandoned prison called Bamlag West, nicknamed after an infamous Siberian gulag.MoreLess
The surreality of the situation suddenly hit Jack: The possible success or failure of Dagestan’s attempt to break free of Valeri Volodin and the Russian Federation now rested on the fate of a sickly, retired politsiya sergeant ...who was until a few days ago thought to be dead. Koikov probably had no idea that he’d become the most important man in the whole country.
• • • ASSUMING KOIKOV’S KIDNAPPERS had continued north after Dom had lost them in Bakhtemir, Seth and Spellman began hunting for a location in Dagestan’s northern lowlands that could be connected directly to Medzhid or at least to the MOI.
There were four possibilities, Spellman told Jack a few hours later: a currently unmanned training base for politsiya armored vehicle units outside Bakhtemir; the decommissioned Rybozavad Naval Base for Caspian flotilla patrol boats now under the guardianship of the Ministry; a two-hundred-acre stretch of tidal marshes outside Suyutkino that Medzhid’s predecessor had appropriated as a private duck-hunting preserve; and an abandoned prison called Bamlag West, nicknamed after an infamous Siberian gulag.MoreLess
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