Boris Starling

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After twenty-five years, Gorky Parkfinally has a worthy successor in Boris Starling’s Vodka—a dazzling, epic thriller set in post-Communist Russia that is filled with crime and corruption, love and death, and the tragic pull between good and evil that nearly brings a once-proud empire to its knees.It is December of 1991, and the Soviet Union has just collapsed. Muscovites are used to lines and empty shelves, but now they have to cope with a dangerous power vacuum— and a war between brutal mafia gangs for control of the city. Alice Liddell, an American banker, has come to Moscow to oversee the privatization of Russia’s most famous vodka distillery—the Red October. Faced with the charismatic, ruthless Lev—distillery director and head of one of the warring mafia gangs—Alice’s very difficult job is starting to look impossible. Lev’s archenemy has vowed revenge on him, and a series of bizarre child killings is only adding to the complications—and the terror—of this dangerously volatile time.

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Pennsylvania

Multi-stranded, groundbreaking Russian thriller from the bestselling author of Messiah and Storm hyperinflation, its population in terror of a killer preying on children. Into this anarchy comes Alice Liddell, an American banker charged with starting the privatisation process crucial to Russia's hopes of reform. But reform means hardship, and survival is hard enough as it is; Alice has only a short period to succeed before the people lose patience with the progressive government. Her target is the Red October distillery, Russia's most famous vodka producer, but Alice discovers that lack of time is the least of her problems. boss Lev and his Chechen nemesis Karkadann. Are the brutal child killings terrorising Moscow connected to their violent conduct? How should Alice handle her discoveries that Red October is riddled with corruption from top to bottom? And can Alice and Lev, adversaries across the negotiating table, reconcile their very different professional aims with their very unprofessional feelings for each other? their struggles are no longer simply for their own designs; they are for the soul of Russia itself. suspense, shocking brutality, heart-pounding pace, a saga of rivalry and bloodshed, a searing study of addiction, and a love story truly poetic in its tragedy. Vodka is Boris Starling's finest book to date, and sure to catapult him into the top bracket of popular British writers.

Category - Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 9 months ago

Est. Publication Date - Jan 2005

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Category - Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 9 months ago

Est. Publication Date - Jan 2005

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Vodka

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