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Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
333 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Russian cop Arkady Renko, not the most popular man on the force, is assigned to investigate reported sightings of Stalin's ghost in a Moscow subway station, which leads him to a murder investigation that has links to Nikolai Isakov, a former Black Beret now running for public office.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
339 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's iconic sleuth returns with a case that epitomizes the New Russia. Pal Ivanov, powerful, vigorous, dangerous, and one of the nation's billionaire businessmen, has jumped to his death. When Renko is called in to investigate, he uncovers hidden demons and byzantine international plots that drove this oligarch to his death.
3) Moscow rules
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern day Moscow
The death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub puts Investigator Arkady Renko's skills to the test
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
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
Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ernst Fandorin, a young detective with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police in 1876, is forced to unravel a complicated web of events when his inquiry into the suicide of a talented student in a public park reveals links to a murder, an orphanage, and a worldwide terrorist conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987, c1967
Edition
1st Evergreen ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 402 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves...
8) Gorky Park
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
365 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. 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 the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic...
Author
Series
Red widow volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating spy thriller about two women CIA agents who become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division--one that's coming from inside the agency"--
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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...
12) Red Square
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renco returns to Moscow and finds everything has changed and the only entity that functions is the economy, run by the Russian Mafia.
13) The last agent
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash novels volume 1
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Language
English
Description
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1980: The Democratic People's Republic of Laos is proud to be competing in its first-ever Olympics. Of course, half the world is boycotting the Moscow Summer Olympic Games to protest Russia's recent invasion of Afghanistan, but that has made room for athletes from countries that are usually too small or underfunded to be competitive--countries like Laos. Ex-national coroner of Laos Dr. Siri Paiboun may be retired, but he and his wife, Madame Daeng,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A dazzling contemporary novel that interweaves the lives of a Russian mistress and the young French painter who falls in love with her. Set in the South of France, London, and Paris, a gorgeous, innocent mistress of a Russian oligarch gradually finds independence via her own efforts and through her friendship with the artist son of a world-renowned painter and his devoted muse/now restaurateur mother, reminiscent of Picasso and La Colombe D'or in...
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
527 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a harrowing escape from Russian agents on his last mission, Charles Jenkins thinks he's finally done with the spy game. But then the final two of the seven sisters - American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades - cut off all communication with their handlers. Are they in hiding after detecting surveillance? Or have they turned and become double agents? It's Jenkins's duty to find out, but he's been added to a Russian...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It's the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs...
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