Chapter 14
Activity had climbed to fever pitch in Chechnya. Nikolai’s crooked police chief had marshalled his forces and put out alerts, and the whole Chechen underworld and its network of informants were searching for details of what had happened and the whereabouts of Tatiana. Pasha was executing his plan to extract himself and his wife safely from his nightmare, and Vladimir was planning his secret coup.
Pasha resolved to make the difficult call to his wife Katerina. She had some idea what Pasha did and who he worked for but did not truly understand just what he did and how dark his past really was. Pasha had always tried to protect her from this part of his life, not wanting to worry her or sully her innocence with the filth that he dealt with every day. Katerina was his secret garde
