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slid by as smoothly as a magnet.
What?
providnitsa
pelmeni.
with
by
twenty-some
twenty-something or twenty-odd
fuckup?”
Should be hyphenated.
plantigrade
suckerfish
Boris Benz,”
This name was used in Book 3 - Red Square, as an alias. Couldn't the author think up a different name to use?
tetras
“Irkutsk.”
Ararat
factotum
The sun as it rose burst the glass of the tower and then broke into a million violet lights, not totally unlike Paris.
WTF?
“I enlisted in the police academy so that I could concentrate on my poetry.
Ridiculous.
bucolic
advise
advise you to
lay
lie
jag.
Not the right word.
Like the DTs.”
Again, WTF?
Babr,
corps de ballet.
odds
the odds
contact sheet.
on my laptop
Clumsy phrasing.
the
Word not required.
Chita.”
Saran.
taiga
“Sarangerel. It means moonlight.”
directions
Clumsy writing; 'for directions' would be better.
cannons
cannon
banya
cerulean
Decembrist
pot stickers
equanimity.
“Lake Baikal,” Benz called back. “Largest body of fresh water in the world.”
Arkady noticed the change in the tempo of the rotors. They were slowing.
its
What? More shoddy phrasing.
“The Siberian dilemma,”
trichinosis,
grozny,
berm
A nurse the size of a shipping hazard peered over him and smiled.
Olkhon Island.”
This was why he had traveled so far. This was what he had suffered for. The heat that spread like a blush across her breasts. The way her fingers curled. His name on her lips. And then the languor.
<facepalm>
blowhard
farther
further?
Second,
Where is 'First'?
