Tom Clancy's EndWar by Tom Clancy

Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense Fiction, War & Military, Moscow (Russia), World War III
ISBN: 9780425222140
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four.

Colonel Pavel Doletskaya had convinced them to remove the straitjacket. He had no intention of hurting himself, and it was ridiculous for him to summon a guard every time he needed to use the small toilet in the corner of his cell.

Besides, they had four cameras inside and two guards outside. If he so much as held his breath, they would be on him in seconds.

They had even given him a small metal cot with a thin mattress and a military-issue blanket. His requests for reading material--for anything, really, to occupy his time--had been ignored. Moreover, it had been several hours since his last visit from the interrogators.

So he lay there, staring up at the ceiling, burping up the remnants of MRE #07, meat loaf and gravy. It was no wonder the American soldiers so often retreated during combat; they were all running to the bathroom after consuming 1,200 calories of pure indigestion.

Doletskaya draped an arm over his head and closed his eyes, longing to clear his mind . . .

They were back at her apartment now after a remarkable first meal together, and he looked into her eyes as she straddled him.

"Colonel," he began softly. "I didn't expect this."

"Neither did I."

Viktoria Antsyforov was even more beautiful in the shadows of her bedroom, her long hair, usually bound in a tight bun, fluttering like dark flames.

Following that fateful meeting at Kupol, they became lovers and spent the next few months working out the logistics of her plan. She foisted her ideas upon her colleagues and summarily crushed those who challenged her in their meetings.

On several occasions, Doletskaya had watched as she caught the eye of Izotov himself. Soon, the rumors that she was sleeping with the general circulated. Doletskaya only grinned them away.

On the last night he had seen her alive, they'd returned to Kupol for an elegant dinner at his suggestion.

She'd been quiet throughout the meal.

And when he asked what was wrong, she snapped at him, "I want you to leave your wife. Does that make me a bad person?"

"No. But you know that's not possible. Not for a man in my position."

"Why not? You can't bear a few scars? All my life I've been the snow maiden, afraid my heart would melt me. But it is warm now. For you. And I'm not melting. I'm asking you to do something for me."

"And I'm telling you I can't."

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