As the door opened and the CIA men began taking their prisoner down the steps of the aircraft, a broad smile formed on the Russian president’s lips.
Wilkes walked up to the Russian president and shook his hand.
“I trust that you finished getting everything you could out of him?” he asked, a smirk on his face.
Wilkes shrugged but didn’t say anything. No more than you must have done working in Berlin many years ago, old man.
Wilkes’s men had to put Morozov through an accelerated interrogation regimen. He would have preferred to take more time, but they had still obtained a great deal of valuable intelligence.
The Russian president looked at the prisoner like he was a precious gift. “Mr. Wilkes, my thanks for this. Even if he is a week overdue.”
Pavel Morozov was gagged, bound, and blindfolded. The Russian president walked up and removed the blindfold. Red, bloodshot eyes looked back at him, filled with fear. The president patted Morozov’s cheek a little too hard, then gestured for his men to take him away. Then he got in his car, and the motorcade departed.
Wilkes began walking back towards the jet. He shuddered to think what might be in store for Morozov. But the man deserved his fate. Wilkes looked back from the top of the stairs once more, watching the motorcade speed off down the road. He pulled his jacket tight to fight the cold. The winds coming off the Black Sea lent a chilly bite to the air.
About the Author
Andrew Watts is the USA Today bestselling author of The War Planners series. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2003 and served as a naval officer and helicopter pilot until 2013. During that time, he flew counter-narcotic missions in the Eastern Pacific and counter-piracy missions off the Horn of Africa. He was a flight instructor in Pensacola, FL, and helped to run ship and flight operations while embarked on a nuclear aircraft carrier deployed in the Middle East.
Today, he lives with his family in Ohio.
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