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The White Mercedes
Going to work was the same everywhere, and the changeover from
Marxism-Leninism to Chaos-Capitalism hadn’t changed matters much — well,
maybe things were now a little worse. Moscow, a city of wide streets, was
harder to drive in now that nearly anyone could have a car, and the center
lane down the wide boulevards was no longer tended by militiamen for the
Politburo and used by Central Committee men who considered it a personal
right of way, like Czarist princes in their troika sleds. Now it was a left turn
lane for anyone with a Zil or other private car. In the case of Sergey
Nikolay’ch Golovko, the car was a white Mercedes 600, the big one with the
S-class body and twelve cylinders of German power under the hood. There
weren’t many of them in Moscow, and truly his was an extravagance that
ought to have embarrassed him…but didn’t. Maybe there were no more
nomenklatura in this city, but rank did have its privileges, and he was
chairman of the SVR. His apartment was also large, on the top floor of a
high-rise building on Kutusovskiy Prospekt, a structure relatively new and
well-made, down to the German appliances which were a long-standing
luxury accorded senior government officials.
He didn’t drive himself. He had Anatoliy for that, a burly former Spetsnaz
special-operations soldier who carried a pistol under his coat and who drove
the car with ferocious aggression, while tending it with loving care. The
windows were coated with dark plastic, which denied the casual onlooker the
sight of the people inside, and the windows were thick, made of
polycarbonate and specced to stop anything up to a 12.7-mm bullet, or so the
company had told Golovko’s purchasing agents sixteen months before. The
armor made it nearly a ton heavier than was the norm for an S600 Benz, but
the power and the ride didn’t seem to suffer from that. It was the uneven
streets that would ultimately destroy the car. Road-paving was a skill that his
country had not yet mastered, Golovko thought as he turned the page in his
morning paper. It was the American International Herald Tribune, always a
good source of news since it was a joint venture of The Washington Post and
The New York Times, which were together two of the most skilled
intelligence services in the world, if a little too arrogant to be the true
professionals Sergey Nikolay’ch and his people were.
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