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ivan and boris have been friends since being on duty, they were in chechnya together... since then a couple of years passed and the friends lost touch. ivan decided to become a doctor. while boris got the job of a guard in a bank. having once met ivan, boris told him about his brother alex.
alex went in for hockey and two years ago left for america. there he had some problems with russian criminals. alex asked for help one of the most influential people in chicago - david pain by name. but alex didn't have any idea of the fact that pain was in a collusion with russian criminals and instead of helping started to appropriate the money from his contracts.
boris told that his boss, izotov, knew pain and could help. on the day boris was found dead... ivan decided to have his revenge on the friend. and his first wish was to speak with izotov.
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hardly had ivan managed to jump out of the burning lift, the cabin crushed down with a terrible noise right behind him. the main character found himself in a vault of the bank. nearby he found a gun with a ferrule almost empty. ivan desperately needed to get out of the vault and find izotov. 
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it took him some time after the darkness of the vault to get used to the bright sunlight coming through the window of the bank. soon he found himself in another wing of the building. izotov's office was a couple floors above. 
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having finished his business with izotov, ivan went outside. he needed to go to america urgently to have his revenge on the russian criminals  for boris and help his brother. friends gave boris fake documents and got tickets on the plane. after the flight, in a few hours, boris was in chicago. he left the airport  and went down the sideway which was to lead him to david pain's night-club.
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he fell down because of a strong strike from behind. in a couple of hours he recovered consciousness in a small dark room without his documents and the gun. ivan guessed  that he was in the vault of pain's night-club. ivan was alone, but any moment someone might enter. so he decided to get out of this place.
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having got outside, he headed to the city-centre. his aim was the skyscraper  in which pain's office was situated. he found the address on a cheque, which was among other rubbish in the club's vault. 
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ivan looked at the skyscraper. david pain's office was on one of the top floors of the building.  ivan was to have a difficult way upstairs. 
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after another stair well he finally was on the floor he needed. just a few doorways were now separating him from the goal he had been heading for all this time. 
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the last guard of david pain lay dead.  ivan came up to the office door and saw pale pain by the checkmate table. ivan pointed the gun towards him
and quietly said: "so tell me, you american, what is power? is it really in money? do you have a lot of money? so what? personally i think that power is in truth. the one who is true - is strong. you deceive people and prosper. so have you become stronger? no, you didn't. because the truth is not at your side. the truth is at the side of the one whom you deceived, that means he is stronger. isn't it so?"
the money which ivan got from pain were returned to boris' brother.  the main character had nothing else to do in america. he did all he wanted to do. it was now time to go home, to russia. memories of america like a terrible dream were disappearing in the mist under the wing of the plain. the one who is true - is strong. and the power is in truth!