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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.
It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.
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It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.
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In an era of financial free-for-all in Russia, a Moscow cop deals with rampant crime in a “terrific” and “exceptional” police drama (Detroit Free Press).
It’s the mid-nineties, and capitalism and privatization have come to Russia. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia is on the rise. Newfound democracy has not reduced the...
It’s the mid-nineties, and capitalism and privatization have come to Russia. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia is on the rise. Newfound democracy has not reduced the...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 7
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Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern day Moscow.
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Arkady Renko novels volume 1
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"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries
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"Listen, Drummond, your client betrayed this country in ways too horrible to contemplate..." In the history of espionage, there's never been one like him. But Major Sean Drummond never says die. Especially when an old flame begs him to defend her brigadier general husband in the biggest treason case in U.S. history. And even when Drummond is up against the fiercest prosecutor in the Army and fighting two murder charges. With an unconventional and...
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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries volume 13
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With his Edgar Award-winning series about a Moscow cop
In the 1960s, Russian children wanted to be cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. But the Soviet Union is history, and Gagarin's glory is long gone. For the men and women aboard the decaying Mir space station, life is an unending series of near-disasters. During one such breakdown, cosmonaut Tsimion Vladovka asks ground control to contact Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov...
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Written during Stalin's regime in the 1930s, but not published until 1967, The Master and Margarita is an intricate allegory of good and evil and one of the best examples of protest literature ever written. Author Mikhail Bulgakov takes listeners on a journey through the literary streets of Moscow as the lead character, Satan disguised as a black magician named Woland, torments the city's people. Woland finally finds the Master, the man he has been...
10) Red Square
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Arkady Renko novels volume 3
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The Communist party is dead; the ruble is worthless. As Moscow collapses around Arkady Renko, he escapes to Germany only to find the Russian mafia already on hand, enjoying the country's good beer, driving BMWs through the Brandenburg Gate, and searching murderously for Investigator Renko.
11) Moscow rules
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 8
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The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest...
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In the bestselling tradition of The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Rheineman Exchange, a compelling thriller in which one man's actions can change the course of history. In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power-France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family,...
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Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries volume 14
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A Moscow cop juggles cases of kidnapping, murder, and a missing Czarist-era document in a modern-day mystery with never a dull moment.
In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying to find his way in...
14) Private Moscow
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 17
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"An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy. On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private,...
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Autumn, 1948: Iris Digby, her American diplomat husband Sasha, and their two children vanish from London. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West's most vital secrets? Four years later Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from Iris, the twin sister she hasn't seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940. Now Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as...
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2009, c1998
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379 p. ; 20 cm.
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Art historian Nicholas Ochterlonie's seemingly perfect life is thrown into chaos when his wife suddenly demands a divorce. As his world turns upside down, Nicholas finds himself breaking the law, having an affair, and crossing the Russian mafia.
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"Moscow. After the death of his nuclear-physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, ten-year-old Leon Rozental hides in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment. There he encounters Koba, a high-ranking Soviet officer with disturbing insights into the thoughts and actions of Joseph Stalin."--Provided by publisher.
18) Wolves eat dogs
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Arkady Renko novels volume 5
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Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades, now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists and some elderly Ukrainian peasants. This is the eerie and dangerous world Inspector Arkady Renko must navigate if he is to find out the truth behind the death of Russia's richest oligarchs. Pasha Ivanov has been found dead on the pavement outside his luxury high-rise apartment in Moscow....
19) Dog boy
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2010
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293 p. ; 22 cm.
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A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street...
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"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures...
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