Alexei hands the film to a courier—only to watch the courier hand it directly to Zhukov. The courier was a double agent. Alexei is now trapped. He burns his safe house and flees into the industrial district during a blizzard. Part 3: The Escape Chapter 7: The Long Night Hiding in an abandoned warehouse, Alexei is injured (a shrapnel wound from a flashbang). He uses a smuggled satellite phone to send a desperate Morse code message to Sarah: "Blown. Need emergency extraction. River crossing."
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4.5/5 stars – Chilling in every sense of the word. Did I get the right book? If not, reply with the author's name, and I will rewrite the summary specifically for that novel! Alexei hands the film to a courier—only to
Colonel Boris Zhukov , a ruthless counter-intelligence officer, arrives. Zhukov is not stupid; he knows there is a mole. He begins a "sweep" of the facility. Alexei realizes he has 72 hours to get the film out before the entire base is locked down. He burns his safe house and flees into
CIA officer Sarah Lang approaches Alexei in a cramped cafeteria. She offers him $2 million and extraction to Vienna in exchange for the technical schematics of a new "silent drone" being tested in the Siberian permafrost. Alexei refuses initially, fearing the Svirel (the whistleblower assassins).
A small CIA floatplane lands on a crack in the ice. Sarah pulls Alexei aboard. He looks back at the smoking facility and the black water where Zhukov vanished. He whispers, "Forgive me, Katya."
