[Max Fend 01.0] Glidepath by Andrew Watts

Author:Andrew Watts [Watts, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
Publisher: Point Whiskey Publishing
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Pavel Morozov had two qualities that had helped him to attain his level of wealth: cunning and ruthlessness. These qualities had served him well prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. His rise through the ranks of the KGB had been swift. But one could only go so far in the Soviet Union. The idiocy of the Communist bureaucracy meant that natural talent had its limits. Politics and ideology always got in the way.

But not anymore. The fall of the USSR had been a godsend to men like him. Men who didn’t have any scruples about getting their hands dirty. Men who projected strength. Once the politicians were no longer in charge, there was a huge power vacuum. Former KGB members were only too happy to fill the void.

Pavel found that he was quite a talented businessman. There were so many similarities to his work in the KGB. You always had to be one step ahead of the competition. Deception and innovation ruled the day. To Pavel, business was just a new way of playing the same old game.

After the collapse of the USSR, the Red Army had an enormous inventory of weaponry, and very little need for it. The Cold War was over. Where there was confusion, there was great opportunity, Pavel knew.

The first time he walked into a former Soviet weapons cache and demanded to see the commanding officer, he expected to get pushback. But Pavel was surprised to find out that the same methods of influence and persuasion he had used in the KGB worked just as effectively in his new field.

Arms dealer. The bottom rung of the long ladder he would climb.

There were national armies around the world that would pay top dollar for Russia’s unused weapons. The Russian military men who oversaw the weapons didn’t care where they went. Those men just didn’t want to get in trouble. Don’t rock the boat. That way of thinking had served them well in the Soviet era. But in the post-Soviet world, there were so many possibilities. The Russian military men were happy to accept cash and black market items in exchange for misplacing crates of weapons.

The first man to question Morozov got shot on the spot. The second man suddenly had no questions.

The money started rolling in after that. Pavel Morozov sold Russian weapons to whoever wanted them, all around the world. If you were looking for an AK-47, go somewhere else. But if you were looking for ten thousand of them—Pavel was your man. Need a tank? How about twenty? The first pallet of shells would be free.

But others were in on the game as well. The mid-90s—that was when the Russian and Ukrainian mob had gotten their legs under them. They were also staffed with former KGB, GRU, and Red Army veterans. The imbalance of supply and demand quickly sorted itself out. Competition got stiff.

Pavel Morozov had made his first pile of cash. It was time for him to think bigger. He began investing. Putting money into companies and nation-states that couldn’t get loans from anywhere else.

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