Marek took two weeks to nail down exactly what we wanted to do. To avoid tipping anyone off, he scheduled the meeting with Santiago for the week after. He put the fake meeting on his calendar, along with another lunch meeting. We were supposed to meet Kamilia and Damir across the city for lunch. That was the cover. It made sense to use the tunnel to get to the place we were going.

Juri wasn’t happy about the plan. He wanted to bolster up and have us take a caravan of bratva soldiers and take ...