Moscow Metal

Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery #4

by Rick Boyer

Together with Concord Police Chief Brian Hannon, Boston detective Joe Brindelli, and the FBI, Doc Adams investigates the KGB connection to a Boston high-tech research lab

Genres: Mystery, Mystery Thriller

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

A pseudonym used by Richard L Boyer.

Series:
* Charlie "Doc" Adams Mystery

Awards:
Edgar Award
◊ Best Novel (1983): Billingsgate Shoal

Reviews

[Paul Close · Rating 3 out of 5]

pretty good

[Ivan Benedict · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good thriller involving the KBG.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

#4 in the Doc Adams series.

Doc Adams series - Oral surgeon Charlie Adams' new adventure starts with the mysterious, painful death of an Adams cat. Then Doc's wife Mary is felled by a stranger fever caused, it is discovered, by a deadly pellet of irradiated thallium she found in the cat's body. Mary recovers, but the FBI is called in because the poison (``Moscow metal'') is used mostly in KGB assassinations and because an Adams neighbor, a refugee Hungarian scientist, has vanished. Soon Doc is involved with more deaths, double agents and the impending theft of a high-tech defense system. After some sleuthing, Doc engages in a lethal, climactic struggle with a fabled Soviet agent.

[Tommyb]

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