“Dionna, what we seem to have here is the first major terrorist incident in the history of the Soviet Union—” “Since the bastards set themselves up,” Toland snorted. “We know for certain—at least we’ve been told—that a bomb was detonated in the Council of Ministers building. They’re certain it was a bomb, not some kind of accident. And we know for sure that three, possibly more people were killed, and perhaps as many as forty or fifty wounded. “Now the really interesting thing about this is that the Politburo had been scheduled to hold a meeting here at about that time.”
