A Novel Made in Ukraine

In what makes one of the most interesting stories in a long time, a hired killer ends up in the murkiest of places hunting Russian paid killers trying to make the Ukraine a dangerous place to live.  The twists and turns make for a sure novel or true-to-life spy thriller, only this is not fiction.  It may not be a true representation of the facts, but it is true to someone buried deep inside an unsavory job of killing people for a living.

Don’t say you haven’t thought about it.  Being a paid spy like James Bond seems like a job that few could say no to, but what this shows is those killers are in a circle of  targets trying to kill one another.    In the meantime, they covertly kill some of the most sensitive targets in governments like the Ukraine.  The Russians show their lack of patience in allowing persuasion and political warfare to win wars;  they just kill off those they know are hurting their operations in the border areas of the south.  Someone else will take those jobs but they won’t have the political will or veracity of the person killed off.  Would you?

These kinds of people have no conscious, and most of them work for both sides of the game.  Working for just one makes you a target for the other, so how better to protect yourself than by playing both ends against the middle?  On the surface it makes sense, like arms dealers who sell to both sides, but Assassins are a peculiar bunch who can be targets as much as targeting someone else.  It makes for a paranoid existence without many friends.

In the meantime, the Ukraine will be thinking about reciprocity for the dead.  How do you even the score for that head of special operations killed by Russian funded bad guys?  You hire your own.