Cold Blood
ALEX SHAW
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Hetman – the title of the highest military commander, after the monarch, in fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland, Ukraine and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Table of Contents
20th September 1996. SchreinerBank, Poznan, Poland
He set his watch, pulled down the black balaclava and stepped out of the van. As one, the men stormed the bank. ‘Na Podloge Natychmiast!’ On the floor now – the Polish was precise, clipped and accented. With a swift bark from a Kalashnikov, the sole SchreinerBank