While Andropov returned to where he had left his men with the prisoners his meticulous brain never stopped working. Practically he had resolved his following steps. The Russian had made up his mind: he had to eliminate the five hostages as they were the only ones who knew about the existence and location of the pyramid. He did not like unneeded bloodshed but in this case his priority was to secure the exclusivity of that knowledge until he could organize a well-equipped expedition to extract the golden treasure, find a safe storage for it while preparing the marketing cycle and make the sale inside a closed circle of prospective purchasers. For all these tasks Andropov could only trust his mentor and contact with the core of powerful former members of the Red Army and the KGB who funded an
