It was the Russian, but not his regular Russian. It wasn"t the normal Rezidentura flunky with the bad breath. No, not this time – this time it was the big man from Moscow, his original recruiter and controller of the network. The man known to him as "Ivan", whom he knew was in fact, Vladimir Krivitsky. He was squat and vulgar in his manner and always wore a somber, baggy suit giving him the duck-like waddle that fat men have when they"re rushing. To the fearful, he was a monster known as Svarog.
RezidenturaKrivitsky was old school KGB. He"d been earmarked for great things; a possible seat at KGB Director Semichastney"s high table, it had been rumored. That was, until some scandal he"d been involved in several years ago in Poland, a shooting, the rumor mill said, but even now the details w
