At the far end of Siberia survival depends on Muscle, stamina, and a devious mind!
In a place the world doesn't know or care about, Skurt Ancre, Assistant Director of Mining in Chukotka decides to bring progress to his community, even if it requires him to engage in a growing list of illegal actions.
No matter who is in charge in Russia--the czar, the communists, or its new democratic leaders--nothing in this country ever changes. The incompetent government is unable, or unwilling, to stabilize the imploding economy and it is the average citizen who suffers.
Ancre and his group of friends develop a plan of action, but it involves embezzlement, theft, and bribery, which are only some of the many underhanded activities the plan requires they perform on several continents. Can this civil servant in a remote Russian town make this backwater province the showplace of capitalism or is a prison cell the best he can hope for?
From Anadyr to Moscow, from Brunei to Tehran, from Zurich to Seoul, Chicago, Tucson, and Vladivostok the plan moves forward to its inevitable conclusion with the Russian Mafia working to exact its pound of flesh.