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The Mercenary

The Mercenary
  • Author(s): Paul Vidich
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing—and always dangerous—USSR in the mid-1980s. Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the...

The Night Watch

The Night Watch
  • Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance...

The Russia Chronicles: Streets of Moscow

The Russia Chronicles: Streets of Moscow
  • Author(s): Andrew Anzur Clement
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2007-2030

Separated from his parents on a family vacation, 16-year-old Peter Greenfield must survive with the help of homeless youth who live in the tunnels of Moscow’s secret Second Subway. Book One in a series that follows Peter and his...

The Russian Interpreter

The Russian Interpreter
  • Author(s): Michael Frayn
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

‘A love affair through an interpreter,’ said Raya. ‘That’s a very cultured prospect.’ Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who...

The Secretary

The Secretary
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, MI6 secretary Lois Vale is on a deep cover mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the...

The Starlings of Bucharest

The Starlings of Bucharest
  • Author(s): Sarah Armstrong
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Moscow Wolves Series Book 2) The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves. Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when...

The Winter Queen

The Winter Queen
  • Author(s): Boris Akunin
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

It’s strange that there’s no contemporary crime fiction coming out of Putin’s Russia, but Boris Akunin makes up for that with his intricate, allusive Erast Fandorin books, set at the turn of the last century.

The Wizard of the Kremlin

The Wizard of the Kremlin
  • Author(s): Giuliano da Empoli, Willard Wood (Translator)
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin. Working at the heart of Russian power, spin doctor Vadim Baranov has used his background in reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and...

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

Twilight of the Eastern Gods
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned...

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