This “superb mystery-thriller” featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent
of Arkady Renko delivers “riveting suspense” (Publishers Weekly).
Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife Sarah have been in love for decades,
since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his
wife’s bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a
massive naked man staggers into her hospital room, scared out of his
mind, and tries to jump out the window. Rostnikov restrains the
bearlike man, trying to calm him. As orderlies arrive to return the
escapee to the mental ward, he cries out: “The devil came to devour
the factory.” Rostnikov has far more important things on his mind
than deciphering the ravings of a lunatic, first among them Sarah’s
recovery. And of course crime has not stopped while he cares for his
wife. Rebels are planting bombs, teenagers are plotting
assassinations, and the KGB lurks in every shadow. But despite all
these clamors, the man’s strange words continue to haunt
Rostnikov—and compel him to investigate. With his Edgar
Award–winning Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries, “Kaminsky has
staked a claim to a piece of Russian turf . . . He captures the
Russian scene and character in rich detail” (The Washington Post
Book World).
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ISBN
9781453273494
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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