It took them over nine hours to get from Jingdu to Moscow and it was close to dusk when they alighted. There was no feeling of jet-lag and they still had time to enjoy a Russian meal. 

The hotel had been booked in advance and it was the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the heart of Moscow. It was close to the Red Square and the Klimt Palace was just a few minutes’ drive away. Xia Lei had a good view from his hotel window and could see the toughest government house in Eastern Europe from it - the Klimt Palace. 

‘I’m in Moscow now. I wonder where my father is. He wouldn’t send Yelena in his place this time, will he? It could happen. Yelena is Russian after all and this is her hometown,’ thought Xia Lei. 

He was not worried that the CIA would try anything bold since this was the capital of Russia. If they did, the Russian Federal Security Service was sure to make them suffer. The predecessor of the Russian Federal Security Service was the KGB, and along with the CIA, Mossad of Israel, and the MI6 of England, they were known as ‘the four major...