Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 23 

scanning the dinners and the dancers and evidently searching for someone. Then he drew in his breath and pushed his way past the tables towards Morozin.
Misha bent down and started whispering into Morozin's ear. Morozin uttered an oath in Russian, said something in Russian to the others. "We have serious trouble," he said to Bellamy. "There were two or three explosions at the Amur Machine Works, and now it is all on fire."
"What!?" Bellamy gasped. "Explosions? You mean someone set off the explosions deliberately? But who'd do such a thing?"
"The Russian Mafia," Vera explained. "Their racket is protection. I am in charge of security for Morozin's business interests. Thus far we've concentrated on our stocks inside the railway yard; it is very well guarded over there because that is the source of our foreign currency.