Twenty years after escaping a Soviet prison camp, a young thief finds himself hunting for a precious and lethal treasure on Brooklyn's Coney Island and involved in an affair with an American reporter who has her own dark agenda. Reprint.
This is another interesting read from David Rosenbaum. Like Zaddick, his first, it is set in the Russian immigrant community in Brooklyn, but this one also has considerable action in Russia. The protagonist is interesting and funny, and the dive into another community adds lots of interest and texture to the story.