Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels to a still-peaceful Odesa on routine assignment. But things veer off course when the severed hand of the local governor shows up in a vat of sunflower oil. Max stumbles across a solitary toe,...

The hero, Captain Alexei Korolev, a detective in Moscow’s criminal investigation squad in the 1930s, dissatisfied and morose, manages to cling to his job and his life while all around him are losing theirs. He’s ordered to the port...

I loved my native city, but how I longed to escape, to go to America – a land full of eligible men… Twenty-something Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa...