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Seeking a new series to dive into, I decided to try this first in a 16-book series featuring a Soviet police detective. Set in 1980 (Afghanistan is invaded as the plot unfolds), it introduces our 52-year-old protagonist Rostnikov, a thickset, bum-legged Moscovite, with an appetite for American police fiction, and a secret desire to win a weightlifting competition. The story opens with the titular dissident rehearsing his defense for his upcoming show trial, only to answer a knock at the door tha
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06/11/08 purchase from Decatur Library used books
Mar 10, 2016
Steve Anderson
marked it as to-read
