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- There was a sign around the man’s neck. Cardboard and twine. On
- the sign was scrawled in thick black letters: Zdravstvutye syn. The camera
- zoomed in on the message for several seconds, then went blank.
- “Is that all?”
- Butler nodded.“Just the man, and the sign. That’s it.”
- “Zdravstvutye syn,” muttered Artemis, his accent flawless. Since his
- father’s disappearance, he had been teaching himself the language.
- “Should I translate for you?” asked Butler, also a Russian speaker.
- His accent, however, was not quite so sophisticated.
- He had picked it up during a five-year stint with an espionage unit in
- the late eighties.
- “No, I know what it means,” replied his young employer.
- “Zdravstvutye syn: Hello, son.”
- -The Arctic Incident, Chapter 3
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