CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT
11:55 p.m. Moscow Daylight Time (3:55 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
Strategic Command and Control Center
The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia
A fight broke out in the War Room.
“It’s murder!” a man screamed. “Mass murder! The end of the world has come!”
Corporal Gregor couldn’t tell what was going on. It was happening at the other side of the large open space. Chairs and tables overturned as desk workers scrambled to get away from it. A computer fell to the floor and its screen shattered. People shouted, as people often did.
Several men seemed to be throwing fists over there. Military police moved from the edges of the fray into the middle of it.
Fistfights made very little impression on Gregor. He had seen and done much worse. He looked at the video screens mounted above
