ANCHORAGE, AK, 2025
A beautiful evening sunset panorama of Anchorage can be viewed from several locations, offering stunning views of the mountains, water, and city skyline. Popular spots include Earthquake Park, Point Woronzof Park, and the boardwalk at Potter Marsh.
For Putin-Trump summit they booked the entire Northern Lights Grand Hotel with a miniature golf-course in the courtyard.
MOSCOW, 2025
In the 15th underground level of a Central Moscow government building, a Russian secret committee convenes under dim lights. Cigarette smoke drifts over a massive oval table as men in dark suits murmur over glasses of dark liquid. Among them is
Mironow — officially “retired,” unofficially indispensable. He is tasked with keeping the Alaska meeting under control, whatever it takes.
I am Special Agent Mironow, former General KGB Markow.
Both my names are fictional.
SUMMIT IN THE NORTH, 2025
An unprecedented summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is scheduled in Anchorage, Alaska. The location is no mystery — the entire Northern Lights Grand Hotel is booked solid with security, press, and staff.
But the two leaders are not there. They are hidden away in a separate, undisclosed “safe house” somewhere in the city, known only to a handful of people. One of those who know is Special Agent Mironow.
CHINA, 1991
…We drove out beyond the bridge. Here, near the old stone bridge, a small detachment with two machine guns was holding the defense protecting our Chinese helpers.
Some of our men took up positions at the bridge, while others were sent further along the line as a screen and reconnaissance unit. I was in charge of a group of Chinese track workers which already began to unscrew and dismantle the rails.
AFGHANISTAN, 1981
The term Mujahideen meant by anti-Soviet side “the friendly jihadists”. The Mujahideen are nicknamed “Dushman” (which means Enemy in some local languages) by the Soviets. The friendly, loyal to the Soviets Afghanis was called Shuravi (the friends)
…I grew up and became a Soviet officer. In 1981, already Captain, I was fighting mujahideen basmachi dushmani in the mountains of Afghanistan, and that was our international duty, I was proud of it, I earned 5 medals and orders, eventually for my heroism and knowledge I was promoted to the Lt. Colonel rank. Then the war ended in a complete, total chaos and disaster in the form of Gorbachev’s Perestroika.