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As Arkady Demitriev coordinated the cyber penetration of Sir Patrick Kennedy’s interests on the French Riviera, he observed the comings and goings of the banker and his friends onboard his yacht anchored about a kilometre offshore in the bay of Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

Over the course of the previous months he had also remarked the extravagant lifestyles his rich compatriots living in London, Cancun, and more recently in Monaco. It was a far cry from the austere days of the Soviet Union and Communism—an ideology that had no place in modern Russia, where it had been replaced as a driving force by the idea of getting rich and getting out.

Demitriev had been a boy when the Soviet Union had been dissolved by Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of 1992, and had just enrolled as a student at Moscow State University when Vladimir Putin was elected as president of the Russian Federation in 2000.

Arkady was far removed from the Communist ideals that had inspired his father and grandfather, which did not mean he was not proud of his country and its accomplishments in war and peace.
However, after more than a ten years in the service of the FSB, the Russian secret service, in London, Mexico, Europe and the US, he had lost his illusions and was no longer interested in tacky medals, his father had a drawer full of those, they were worthless, sops for fools, whilst the men in the Kremlin enjoyed the lifestyles of oligarchs. He had seen how others lived and though he was no traitor, he felt used, cheated, and did not want to end up a penniless old man like his grandfather who had fought in the Great Patriotic War, or his father who had seen combat in Afghanistan and suffered ignominy and despair under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

Setting his eyes on a new life in Cuba with Yulia, his problem was how to cut lose the ties that bound him to his corrupt controllers in Moscow and finance his retirement under the Caribbean sun.