Dangerous Secrets
Chapter One
Krasnoyarsk Nuclear Power Plant
Russia
Ten days earlier
November 18
At first light, as agreed, the pilot was waiting, alone, at the bottom of the rolling stairs. It was an undeclared flight with a plane that didn't officially exist and no copilot would be welcome. The fewer people involved, the better.
They were on a runway on the far side of the military airport, which had been decommissioned when the Soviets lost power. A pilot and a nuclear engineer.
They had only been told first names, Lyosha and Edik. Both names were false, but it didn't matter.
The nuclear engineer, whose real name was Arkady Sergeyevitch Andreyev, knew the only thing about the pilot that was necessary—that he was a zek, a former guest of the Russian Gulag. They were members of that very exclusive club—men who didn't die in the Russian Bear's cruel embrace.
The two men didn't shake hands. But when the pilot stretched out his hand to help Arkady maneuver the hand truck to shift the heavy container from the van to a loading pallet, Ark ... read full excerpt from Dangerous Secrets ebook
