Chapter 11
It was a crazy time in a crazy place.
Embroiled in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Chechnya had been torn apart by rebellion and war. The region was full of treacherous areas and dangerous people.
A wild and rebellious teenage girl only just turned 16 was yearning to escape the iron rule of Communist government and her overprotective parents. She took to the streets of Chechnya to break free of her life of rules, limits and constraints.
Young Tatiana thrust herself into the heaving maelstrom of Chechnya’s underworld, where she quickly started running with an adolescent street g**g. It was there that she met Nikolai, a much older man who was charming and enigmatic but with a constant palpable tension like a coiled spring ready to violently unravel, a bom
