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NY: Scribners, 1990. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Inspector Rostnikov of Kaminsky's Edgar-winning series ( A Cold Red Sunrise ) duels for the sixth time with the KGB in this superb mystery-thriller. The novel bursts into action as Rostnikov is visiting his wife, Sarah, hospitalized in their home city of Moscow. The titular "walking bear" is a man who escapes from the mental ward and alarms the women in Sarah's room before the inspector succeeds in calming him (he then hints of thefts at the factory where he had worked). This strange event is but a prelude to crises impelling Rostnikov, with his comrades Karpo and Thach, through intolerable ordeals: a bus is hijacked by rebels conspiring to blow up Lenin's tomb; young lovers plan to murder a government official. Sharing in the overlapping investigations, the inspector joins in celebrating victory with his loyal officers when… Leer más

NY: Scribners, 1990. 1st ed., Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY.. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. ... "Inspector Rostnikov of Kaminsky's Edgar-winning series ( A Cold Red Sunrise ) duels for the sixth time with the KGB in this superb mystery-thriller. The novel bursts into action as Rostnikov is visiting his wife, Sarah, hospitalized in their home city of Moscow. The titular "walking bear" is a man who escapes from the mental ward and alarms the women in Sarah's room before the inspector succeeds in calming him (he then hints of thefts at the factory where he had worked). This strange event is but a prelude to crises impelling Rostnikov, with his comrades Karpo and Thach, through intolerable ordeals: a bus is hijacked by rebels conspiring to blow up Lenin's tomb; young lovers plan to murder a government official. Sharing in the overlapping investigations, the inspector… Leer más

N.Y.: Bantam, 1983. 1st ed. Light soiling at page edges else very good in dust jacket lightly worn at edges, sticker shadow at front, lightly soiled. Magadan, a frozen Siberian outpost that still smolders with the bitter memory of Stalin's work camps. Most men come "voluntarily," their choice being freedom or prison. Icy exile was Ivan Duvakin's reward for interfering in Party matters and uncovering a major scandal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's first crime thriller, set in the Russia of the early 21st century, and introducing Police Inspector Constantin Vadim who is plucked from his native Murmansk to hunt down a serial killer in Moscow known as the Monstrum, the only problem is that Vadim has never investigated a murder before.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Villard, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's first crime thriller, set in the Russia of the early 21st century, and introducing Police Inspector Constantin Vadim who is plucked from his native Murmansk to hunt down a serial killer in Moscow known as the Monstrum, the only problem is that Vadim has never investigated a murder before.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited., 1981. 1st edition. Publishers black boards with fresh, bright gold lettering at spine. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in very slightly sun tanned, protective mylar cover. Ivan Duvakin, a sad sack security officer at The Red October, a rundown Moscow hotel, is the unlikely protagonist in this novel, when he finds a dead body in one of the rooms. Olcott does an outstanding job of describing life in Moscow, circa late 1970s. The numbing cold of winter, the stark living conditions, the sense that one is always being watched and the ubiquitousness of black market commerce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Encampment, Wyoming: USA: Affiliated Writers of America, 1994. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. 498 pages. "The collapse of communism hasn't eliminated Russia as a setting for novels of suspense and intrigue. Set around the 1991 coup attempt that toppled Mikhail Gorbachev but failed to reassert hardline Communist rule and while leading inadvertently to the collapse of the Soviet Union, this vigorously researched but hamfisted thriller from the author of The French Connection turns on the risk of the Russian mafia stealing and reselling nuclear material and weapons. Just before the failed putsch, master criminal Slava Yakovlev, aka ``the Jap,'' imprisoned in a cell whose bribe-begotten comforts temper its Siberian setting, manipulates his release in order to fend off challenges to his far-flung empire and implement the mother of all crimes. The Jap puts into motion a complicated plan by which his underlings extract brutal revenge on the KGB officers who gang-raped beautiful young… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 1997. 1st edition, Septeber 1997, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed and with a few scratches at rear panel, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "At age seven, Lara Patrick was sent from Moscow to her grandmother in the United States, having been abused and now filled with half-suppressed, nightmarish memories. Becoming a prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office, Lara, who never believed that her mother's death was caused by an accidental overdose of drugs, returns to Russia after receiving a photograph of a mutilated woman. Aided by Alexei, one of post-Cold War Russia's nouveaux riches, and dogged by Moscow cop Yuri, Lara begins an investigation that sets off another series of murders, all committed by a seemingly psychopathic sexual deviant determined to eradicate all evidence of the previous crimes. As the number and brutality of the deaths increase, Lara herself is… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st U.S. edition, March 1998. [ previously published as 'Red Mercury Blues in Great Britian], with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book introducing NYC cop Artie Cohen, who has no intention of looking back to the past he left behind twent-five years earlier in Moscow. But when a former Russian general is shot to death, a friend of Artie's father, he takes the case which lands him in the heart of the Brighton Beach Mafia and eventually to Moscow. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1992. 1st edition, so stated. Page edges lightly spotted else near fine in dust jacket. An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Back in Moscow during a coup Arkady also has to deal with the Russian Mafia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1992. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. . An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Moscow. The Soviet upheavals have fueled the glowing talent of Smith (Gorky Park), America's preeminent writer of Russia-based thrillers. Investigator Arkady Renko returns from exile on the Polar Star fleet to find the new Moscow a dramatic battlefield of warlords and entrepreneurs; behind it, as still as a painted backdrop, eight million people standing in line. An ingenious bomb kills Renko's informer the banker for freewheeling black marketeers-leading Arkady's team through the quicksand of mafia-dominated official graft. His workaholic forensics expert, Polina (who must wait in line for morgue time as well as for beets), identifies the bomb method, leading Arkady too close for aparatchik comfort. He is bumped from the case, but only after a clue from the dead man's fax (Where is Red Square?) points him toward a Munich connection.… Leer más

NY,NY: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1985. A spellbinding thriller of a hunt through America, Europe and Soviet Union for a missing man, fortune and the key to a mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Jake Grafton title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2000. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A modern historical novel based on the doomed Soviet Space Program.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A story of international espionage and death set in Houston, Texas. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking 1st ed. Lightly soiled., spine slant in lightly nicked dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

London: UK: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled, else fine in unclipped dust jacket. "Former BBC correspondent Sebastian (who wrote of his expulsion from the U.S.S.R. on espionage charges in I Spy in Russia) set this workmanlike, methodical first novel in wintry, forbidding Moscow, a city full of spies, counteragents and distrust. It's 1990, and Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership in Gorbachev's politburo when his long-dormant status as a "mole" for the British is suddenly reactivated. English intelligence man George Parker, feeling indebted to Kalyagin, begins a covert effort to pull the agent out before his Soviet counterparts discover the traitor's identity. But as the body count starts to rise, Parker's attempts to protect Kalyagin are hampered by both Russian ruthlessness and British indifference. Parker's dogged persistence and Kalyagin's increasing desperation lead to a climactic showdown in the Moscow streets between… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribners, 1992. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Light spine slant else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . Mystery based on a real-life Russian scandal. Translation by Anthony Olcott. "Firsthand insights into the paradoxes of glasnost and perestroika aid but add no luster to this mystery of corruption in the Gorbachev-era Soviet Union, written by a former Moscow police investigator. Journalist Sergei Orlovsky travels to Arshalsk to uncover a scandal in the militia and quickly finds himself in mortal danger. With the help of boyhood friend Yuri Kirilov, a Moscow obstetrician, Orlovsky evades his pursuers and returns to Moscow to publish an expose. But the article is squelched, all copies mysteriously confiscated, and both Orlovsky and Kirilov come in for scrutiny from detective Lt. Col. Voshko. When Voshko in turn finds himself under investigation, these three men learn that the scandal reaches far beyond… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket.. An unidentified corpse found in a hotel room. A baffled police investigator turning for help to a cynical, disillusioned private investigator. A few fistfights, a bit of sex and red herrings galore. These may seem no more than typical conventions for a detective novel of the hard-boiled school. But U.S.S.A. is far more. Its setting is the near future, in a Russia conquered by the U.S. after WW III, which ended not in Armageddon, but with the failure of Soviet missile systems to function. Madsen ( Black Plume ) convincingly depicts an occupation more entrepreneurial than military. Yesterday's enemies are today's customers: Golden Arches and the Goodyear Blimp, American Express and 7-11, all have emigrated; a Disneyland is under construction in Moscow. Private eye Dan Joplin, a CIA agent whose job disappeared with victory, walks mean streets from booming downtown Moscow to a Siberia devastated by nuclear attack, where survivors… Leer más