Rise of an Oligarch by Nik Krasno

Author:Nik Krasno [Sofer, Carlito & Krasno, Nik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780993082719
Google: 9L3orQEACAAJ
Published: 2014-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

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After recovering from my concussion, I headed back to Kiev. I needed to replace Gigo immediately, before the people who worked under him decided to offer their services to a competitor. Our businesses were expanding fast and we needed a professional security officer.

For a couple of years I had tried to persuade my cousin Tolik to join the organisation. Sasha and I didn’t have many relatives, and so we had always been very close. After finishing his regular service as a paratrooper in the Russian army, I first asked him to join us, but he had volunteered for the Chechen campaign instead.

He was like an older brother to both of us, and we were devastated when we heard he had been killed fighting just outside Grozny. Losing Tolik was a serious blow, both emotionally and from a business perspective as we’d always presumed he would tire of being a soldier and come and join us. But he was the type of man who loved living on the edge, so such an end was inevitable.

The last time we saw him, he visited us in Kiev along with his army buddy, and Sasha and I made sure they had the best of leaves before they returned to the battlefield. Tolik’s friend was Arthur Slotski. He served with Tolik in the paratroopers division during their regular service, before Arthur transferred to Spetsnaz, Russia’s military Special Forces.

The last time I had seen Arthur was at Tolik’s funeral. Now, I needed someone like him, the best friend of my cousin. Someone I could trust absolutely.

Currently a retiree, Arthur was a professional. He always dressed in a plain black suit, neatly pressed white shirt and polished shoes. To a casual observer he was probably middle-management or a clerk. How wrong first impressions can be.

When Arthur accompanied Tolik to Kiev we all went to a Sauna. Arthur’s body was extremely muscular and covered with scars, at least two of which were from bullet wounds. He had a simple green tattoo with the emblem of the Russian paratroopers next to the symbol of his blood type. He never smiled and hardly spoke, even after a few shots of vodka, which didn’t seem to affect him at all.

All it took was a couple of phone calls and a half hour’s wait, and I got hold of Arthur’s number. I called and asked him to meet with me in Kiev as I had a proposition for him. Arthur agreed to come, and I offered to put him up in a swanky Kiev hotel for a few days while I present my proposal to him.

He arrived in Kiev the next day and without massive persuasion on my part Arthur agreed to join us as the Group’s chief security officer. For him, working for his deceased best mate’s cousin was more important than money and I was sure Tolik had told him that our security needs were anything but dull.

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