In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector,
“Kaminsky gets Russia right” (Ed McBain). Aleksander Granovsky
has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal
system. In two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays
to the West. It is a show trial, and there is no doubt he will be
convicted and executed, yet before he dies, he intends to tell the
truth one more time. But this is Moscow, where death is never heroic.
While writing his final speech in his government flat, Granovsky is
surprised by an assassin, who pierces his heart with the point of a
rusty scythe. The case is given to Porfiry Rostnikov, a veteran
Moscow police inspector with a knack for navigating the labyrinths of
Soviet bureaucracy. A bruising bear of a man, whose love of
weightlifting and American pizza has left him as squat and powerful as
a .38 bullet, Rostnikov may be the toughest cop in Moscow. This
winter, his challenge is not just to find the killer, but to survive
the investigation, as every question he asks takes him closer to
exposing the dark heart of the KGB. A Cold War–era hero, Porfiry
Rostnikov is “quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet
Union since Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko in Gorky Park.” (San
Francisco Examiner)
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ISBN
9781453266298
Publisert
2017
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Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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