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Название книги: The Bear and the Dragon
Автор(ы): Tom Clancy
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Bear-and-the-Dragon-148775.html
The Bear and the Dragon
AcknowledgmentsAs always, some friends were there to help: Roland, the screw in Colorado, for the superb language lesson - good luck looking after your wayward children-Harry, the kid in the ether world, for some unexpected information,John G., my gateway into the world of technology,And Charles, a fine teacher from long ago, and probably a pretty good soldier, too.
PROLOGUE
The White MercedesGoing 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
Название книги: The Bear and the Dragon
Автор(ы): Tom Clancy
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Bear-and-the-Dragon-148775.html
The Bear and the Dragon
AcknowledgmentsAs always, some friends were there to help: Roland, the screw in Colorado, for the superb language lesson - good luck looking after your wayward children-Harry, the kid in the ether world, for some unexpected information,John G., my gateway into the world of technology,And Charles, a fine teacher from long ago, and probably a pretty good soldier, too.
PROLOGUE
The White MercedesGoing 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
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