A Cold Red Sunrise

New York: Ivy Books / Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1989. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Edgewear at head and tail of spine and corners; Mild spine crease . 0.2 x 4.21 x 0.66 Inches. 213 pages. An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries, No. 5. One Dead Commissar. At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull.. One Live Cop. Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar's murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl's death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked. One Cold Killer. In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB -- and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying. .