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English
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The founder of Private, the world's biggest and best detective agency, Jack Morgan investigates the murder of his former U.S. Marine comrade, which appears to be linked to another murder in Moscow, and arriving in Russia, begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences.
Private investigative agency founder Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade, whose company is being launched onto...
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English
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To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, Rostnikov gets an assignment in Havana The young girl leads her target into a park, planning on robbing him at knifepoint as soon as they are out of sight. But before she can strike, her quarry changes from a stooped middle-aged man to a feral beast, swinging a lead pipe with sadistic glee. By the time the police find the thief, her murderer is long gone. He is the first serial killer in Russian history, responsible...
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English
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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,...
5) Gorky Park
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
Author
Language
English
Description
Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her home is the world, often on one of Vladimir Stanislas's spectacular yachts manned by scores of heavily armed crew members. Natasha's job is to keep Vladimir happy, ask no questions,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After samples of a rare disease are stolen from an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense, Covert-One operative Lt. Col. Jon Smith, is dispatched to Prague. The disease is the perfect assassination tool-a bioweapon that, using each target's DNA, is undetectable, unstoppable, and incurable.
8) Moscow rules
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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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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English
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Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it's Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can't leave her behind. But there's no guarantee it's her. Or proof Paulina...
10) Eloise in Moscow
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Rev. jacket ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
With the freezing wind blowing and the snow flying, Eloise, Nanny and Weenie arrive in Moscow. First published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War and unavailable for nearly 40 years, this classic resurfaces for a whole new generation of Eloise fans. In this beautifully produced, full-color edition, Eloise lives up to expectations and gives her darling performance. Two-color with four-color gatefold.
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Language
English
Description
Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to...
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Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In post–Cold War Moscow, business is booming and crime pays Capitalism has come to Russia, and money is raining from the sky. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia consolidates its power. In the center of this madness is police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a thoughtful detective who is struggling to adjust to life in these turbulent times. A prominent businessman is kidnapped in...
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Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An international gang war chooses Moscow as its battlefield Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has adapted well to life without Communism. But under the Soviets, blood feuds were pursued in the dark halls of bureaucracy, and now they take place in the streets. An international drug ring has chosen Moscow as its next port of call, and the only thing standing in its way is the budding Russian mob, headed by a young man whose brutality is matched...
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
337 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion - Chernobyl, and the surrounding areas closed to the world since the nuclear disaster of 1986. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic detectives of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. Cynical, quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical and haunted by melancholy,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized recreation of the author's experiences as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature describes the school's descent into a dangerously Socialist Realist aesthetic that almost caused him to abandon writing altogether.
19) Salt the snow
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Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police, Milly tries to get him released. But his arrest reveals both painful secrets about her marriage and hard truths about the Soviet state she has been working to serve. Disillusioned and pulled toward the front...
20) Trial run
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
260 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the Russian royal family, but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.