The Fourth Courier

Author(s): Timothy Jay Smith

Location(s): Poland

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Contemporary

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It’s 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly become an international case when it’s feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him—and the bomb—before it ends up in the wrong hands.

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“Smith skillfully bridges police procedural and espionage fiction, crafting a show-stealing sense of place and realistically pairing the threats of underworld crime and destabilized regimes.” — Booklist

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“Timothy Jay Smith: remember this name. Smith is a craftsman, as demonstrated in this swift-paced and tightly organized tale of arms smuggling through Poland in April of 1992. It was written by Somebody Who Was There. The experience shows....

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“All the characters are distinctive and interesting, even the minor ones. There’s some steamy sex. And, the settings, from a drably elegant hotel favored by Mladic to a seedy bar in the bowels of...

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