Head Of The Snake
G. P. Rehder
Copyright © 2020 G. P. Rehder
All rights reserved
First Edition
Fulton Books, Inc.
Meadville, PA
Published by Fulton Books 2020
ISBN 978-1-64654-438-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-64654-439-4 (digital)
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
And the Lord said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this
Thou are cursed above all cattle
And above every beast of the field;
Upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat
all the days of thy life
—Genesis 3:14
The Pobeda M20 had a faint trail of condensation coming from its back-tail pipes. It idled quietly as it sat next to a small runway at the CemR3Nho Airport, northeast of Moscow in the city of Vladimir. In the front seat sat Bogdan Gise and Matvej Klopov, and in the back seat, their boss Viktor Bardzecki.
Bardzecki sat quietly, his eyes closed,