Chapter 6:
Alexei watched as the German patrol craft glided closer to the Kampfhund’s tender. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the German-made private boat was sunk by a German Navy patrol craft? The odd thing was the navy vessel was a few feet shorter, but the three-pound canon on the foredeck would have sunk his unarmed craft in a single shot. His first assessment was wrong. There was no way the Kampfhund’s small boat would have outrun this boat. The German’s was a new design and built for speed.
He thought it strange the German Navy would assign such a new ship to a backwater location like Acre. There wasn’t that much to protect here… or was there?
The Stroganovs had received the zeppelin Kampfhund from its creator, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Just because their respective countries of Rus
