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1) Child 44
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Leo Demidov, an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force in Stalin's Soviet Union, finds himself demoted and on the run for suggesting the presence of a murderer in the insisted idealistic Moscow.
5) Granny Dan
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Danina Petroskova dies, her granddaughter discovers a box that hold a pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters that reveal Danina's hidden past.
6) Agent 6
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself"--Provided by publisher.
9) Complex 90
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When private investigator Mike Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission, he is arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge. He quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a firefight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his extradition, and various government agencies are following him. A question...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Royal Navy commander is plunged into the bloody chaos of the Russian Civil War on a risky quest to save two young nurses . . .
In 1919, Lieutenant Commander Bob Cowan is serving with the Royal Navy in the Black Sea-and as a fluent Russian speaker, he has been tasked to rescue two young British women caught up in the Russian Civil War, working as nurses with the White Army.
Then news of defeat at the Front reaches Cowan. But the importance...
11) The red horseman
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Jake Grafton, a Defense Intelligence agent, is dispatched to Moscow. His mission is to keep the twenty thousand nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union from getting on the black market, but there are many who would like to see him fail.
Author
Language
English
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Description
After selling her vast jewelry collection in an attempt to put her past to rest, Nina Revskaya, who was once a star of the ballet in Russia, is forced to confront dark secrets of her heart in order to help an auction house associate director and a Russian professor solve a literary mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet spy and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive.
Vienna, 1954
After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union's...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Debonair superspy Blackford Oakes takes on one last mission in the rollicking conclusion to a beloved espionage series by William F. Buckley. Blackford "Blackie" Oakes is the greatest spy in American history, but he's no longer allowed behind enemy lines. As the former director of covert operations for the CIA, he knows too much to risk falling into enemy hands. But something has come up that requires him to go farther behind the Iron Curtain than...
15) We
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This classic Russian dystopian novel inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many other science fiction writers, and now this reprint of the original 1924 translation of We is available at Dover. Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled by conformity and humans are identified by their assigned number, spaceship engineer D-503 must face his beliefs about the One Party head on after a chance encounter with the beautiful...
16) The Russia house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1990
Language
English
Description
A Soviet book editor sends a manuscript to a British publisher, unwittingly drawing them both into a game of international espionage.
17) A Dog's Heart
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita. Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's A Dog's Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog ) is a zany, violent, and whimsical satire of the failures inherent in the dream of a Communist utopia, following dog-turned-human Sharik as he tries and fails utterly to live a life of goodness and virtue-but goodness and virtue as defined by...
18) Bloody Sunset
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling historical adventure in the shadow of the Russian Revolution. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lieutenant Bob Cowan of the British Royal Navy must rescue a party of five women, including two of the Tsar's daughters. With the women holed up in a refuge a hundred miles up the Astrakhan river, this will be easier said than done. Astrakhan, where the Volga empties into the Caspian, was a Bolshevik stronghold, sizeable naval base...
19) The diamond eye
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals and struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town.
1963, in a Siberian gulag. Former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes,...
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