Dinastiya Tested // 3rd Book of the Takaryev Trilogy

Chapter 82

"He's left the country, sir." 

Paramon's dark gaze lifted from his desk. "Find him." 

"Yes, sir." 

"And once you find him," Paramon said, "kill him."

"He has a sleeper agent, sir." 

"Agent number and stasis report?" Paramon queried, glasses flashing in the light of the ceiling lamps as he tilted his head. 

"Agent number four-seven-six," 

Paramon wrote down the number and turned to his desk computer and searched the databases. 

"He's not in stasis anymore, sir." 

"Thaddeus Azarov, is that correct?" Paramon blinked and clicked the mouse.

"Yes, sir." 

"He's the one that Hilarion sent to the Kremlin," Paramon said. "And yet, our dear president is not dead. Although Alexandrov's efforts concerning the faked death were valiant, they were a blatant failure. So," he looked up and pulled his gaze from the computer screen. 

"Yes, sir?"

"Find Hilarion and his pet sleeper," Paramon ordered. "Be aware that they've probably gotten different names by now. Once you locate them, report back to me and tell me where they are." 

"Yes, sir." 

"And then I will have them both killed. They both know far too much, and we do not need another revelation complex on our hands." Paramon's gaze was frigid, unflinching, and searching for nothing, only the accomplishment of the aforementioned orders. "You are dismissed." 

He watched as the younger FSB operative left his office, and then he phoned that Ivan Bocharov guy. "Ivan?"

"Yes?" The answer crackled through the phone. 

"Coffee machine is out again. You know what to do," Paramon said.

"Of course, sir," Ivan replied, with a forced cheerfulness seasoning his voice. 

Paramon put the phone down, ending the call. His eyes drifted to a folder of papers he had sitting on his desk, labeled:

  откровение

Otkroveniye was the Russian word for revelation, and the FSB had started using it as a name for what had happened to Ravil. They referred to Ravil's situation as being a complex of sorts- otkroveniye complex, they called it. 

To put it simply, otkroveniye was the FSB's name for what happens when their sleeper agents became self-aware and went "rogue," possessing the ability and potential to break off from the FSB entirely and become a threat, like Ravil had. So far, Ravil's case seemed to be an isolated incident, and most FSB analysts thought it was due to how he'd been trained. After all, the method used to train Ravil had only been used for one other agent, and that had been Nazar. And Nazar hadn't really gone rogue. But Paramon knew that although Ravil was the only one who definitely carried the mark of the otkroveniye complex, there was no guarantee that it couldn't occur in other sleepers. 

And that is one of the many reasons, Paramon thought to himself, why Thaddeus Azarov and Hilarion Takaryev must die.