“... Alexey was a good, cheerful guy, and when Vitek asked to help take the daughter of a very rich businessman hostage, he happily agreed. Now the two of them, wearing masks, were sitting in a car near the rich man’s house and preparing to take over. The main difficulty of this enterprise was that Katya, the ten-year-old daughter of millionaire Alfred Reputatsky, was closely followed by an armed guard. He was an athlete, mastered many hand-to-hand combat techniques, and under his arm hung a holster with a Makarov pistol...”