Spy Scribes Rate the Russians: ‘Lame!’

After thugs abducted Alex Dryden from his hotel, the journalist and MI6 fact-finder learned that it's better to go without a tie in Moscow. "They put me in the back, you know, like you see in Italian Mafia movies, and I was driven out to some marshes — a notorious dropping-off spot for dead bodies. It was in the middle of winter and they'd kind of roughed me up in the back,"...