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Title: The Russian Bear rears its head
Review: Kirov is a Russian businessman who owns Mercury Broadband, the Russian version of AOL. He's coming to market with a $2 billion IPO sponsored by Jett Black Securities. This is the can't miss, can't lose deal of century.Sound too good to be true.It is.This book has a little of everything for the Cold War Warrior: veteran fighter pilots, dark secrets, Russian gangsters, Chechen nasties, and a nostalgic review of the KGB - you know the guys with the thumb screws and rubber truncheons. Only these days they have abandoned the ruble in favor of the dollar, exchanged funny looking uniforms for $5,000 suits and their MiGs for G5 business jets.The only criticism I have for this book is that everything gets wrapped up very neatly, and my experience with Russians is that nothing ever gets put back together exactly right.
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