CAPTIVE SINS
A glass of beer sat on the tray beside an open box of cigarettes, both arranged with a neatness that suggested he had people whose entire job was maintaining that arrangement.
The men around him bowed.
Dimitri did not.
He walked forward and stopped in front of the man, who looked up at him with a smile that carried the particular confidence of someone who had never lost anything they truly wanted to keep.
"It has been a while, Dimitri," the president said.
"I do not need your pleasantries," Dimitri said with a straight face ."Why did you stop my goods?"
The president looked at him for a long moment. Then he set his beer glass down on the tray with the gentleness of a man who was in absolutel