With his Edgar Award–winning series about a Moscow cop,
“Kaminsky’s a master of tone, maintaining the edgy excitement of
suspense” (The Washington Post). 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 if anything happens to him. The
cosmonaut returns to Earth safely, but a year later he goes missing
and his former crew members start turning up dead. Vladovka was in
possession of state secrets, so there’s also a potential security
risk. He must be found, dead or alive. In the days of the USSR, no one
could navigate the bureaucratic maze of the Kremlin like
Rostnikov—but he’s never encountered anything like the labyrinth
that is Star City, home of the Russian space program. Still, the
veteran policeman is convinced: The answer to what happened to the
cosmonaut on Earth lies in something that happened in space.
Bringing to life historic shifts in contemporary Russian history, as
seen through the eyes of one hard-boiled Moscow cop, “Kaminsky’s
Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written” (The
San Diego Union-Tribune).
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ISBN
9781453266359
Publisert
2017
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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