Conspiracy in Kiev by Noel Hynd

Author:Noel Hynd [Hynd, Noel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780310278719
Google: fkWmZCr8tQgC
Amazon: 0310278716
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-09-27T12:00:00+00:00

FORTY-THREE

She looked in every direction, but saw no Federov. Mentally, she beat herself up. How could he have slipped away so easily? How could she have been so foolish as to take her eyes off him, even for an instant?

But he was gone. Completely gone.

The president was already in the limo. Alex’s driver signalled to her. The motorcade needed to move quickly. Still turning her head, looking everywhere, searching the crowds, she tried to find Federov.

No luck. She ducked into her van. The door slammed shut behind her. An instant later the van moved forward with a lurch. Far up ahead, Alex could see the president’s limousine as it moved slowly away from the cathedral. It inched across the square while the president waved to cheering Ukrainians, and then it pulled to a halt at Mihaylavski Place. There, surrounded by flowers and candles, was the gray granite monument to the great famine of the 1930s.

Alex’s vehicle stopped, which meant that the president’s vehicle had stopped. She climbed out quickly and moved forward on foot, trying to draw as close to the memorial and the president as possible. She was within a moderate security area and from a distance of about twenty yards, she could see the president.

Security people gathered around him, including Robert. The president moved with slow dignified steps to the monument with the US ambassador, Jerome Drake. Alex positioned herself with a good view of what would follow.

The monument was a gray slab about six feet high, breathtaking and moving in its stark simplicity. The center had been cut away in the general shape of a cross with gentle contours. In the center of the cutout, there was the carved figure of a man, creating a silhouette. Within the cutout, another figure, presumably that of God, and within that a child’s figure, the infant Jesus.

Alex moved slightly. She found a position just beyond the dignitaries. The crowd was quiet now as one of the president’s assistants handed over a large floral wreath. The president stepped away from Ambassador Drake and closer to the monument. Alex’s gaze followed the president. For the first time, the great famine that she had heard so much about was a reality.

Several seconds passed in silence. Everyone around her was still. A strange series of emotions filled Alex. No matter what one thought of this president, at least the American leader was here to mark the significance of this monument. She felt a deep sorrow for the victims of the famine, the humans who had perished from starvation seventy years earlier in the bitter Ukrainian winter. She bit her lip.

Then, after another moment passed, jets roared low overhead, Mirage fighters, purchased from the French, followed by a quartet of aircraft from the United States. Everyone’s eyes moved skyward, and there was a surge of talking in the crowd.

A second wave of planes passed overhead and again distracted the crowd.

The president was at the monument now, head bowed, Ambassador Drake a few feet behind. Robert

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