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  • THE WHITE RUSSIAN. by Bradby, Tom.
    Bradby, Tom.
    THE WHITE RUSSIAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Bantam Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel set in St. Petersburg, 1917, in a country at war, losing on the battlefield and starving at home "the glittering capital of the Tsarist empire and a city on the brink of revolution - where the jackals of the secret police maneuver for their own survival and their aristocratic masters indulge in one final moment of hedonism." Sandro Ruzsky, chief investigator of the St. Petersburg police department, has just returned from a three-year banishment to Siberia, only to be welcomed back to the city of his birth by the discoveryof a young couple brutally murdered and found on the ice of the frozen river Neva…

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    London: Bantam Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel set in St. Petersburg, 1917, in a country at war, losing on the battlefield and starving at home "the glittering capital of the Tsarist empire and a city on the brink of revolution - where the jackals of the secret police maneuver for their own survival and their aristocratic masters indulge in one final moment of hedonism." Sandro Ruzsky, chief investigator of the St. Petersburg police department, has just returned from a three-year banishment to Siberia, only to be welcomed back to the city of his birth by the discoveryof a young couple brutally murdered and found on the ice of the frozen river Neva just outside the Tsars Winter Palace. SIGNED on the title page. 445 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-593050886.

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    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, 3 streaks on fore-edge of text block)

    Book ID: 84261
    Keywords: czarina, Mysteries: historical, revolutionaries, russia, secret police
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  • CHILD 44. by Smith, Tom Robb,
    Smith, Tom Robb,
    CHILD 44.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47932
    Keywords: first novel, historical mystery, Mysteries: historical, russia, secret police, serial killer, soviet union, stalin, thriller award
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  • CHILD 44. by Smith, Tom Robb,
    Smith, Tom Robb,
    CHILD 44.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very powerful and highly acclaimed first novel, set in Stalinist Russia, in the years after World War II, this is the story a Russian secret police officer who is framed by a colleague, imprisoned, demoted and banished to a small town, but who risks all to solve a series of child murders. Winner of the Thriller Award for best first novel. 439 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-446-402389.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with a remainder line.)

    Book ID: 48089
    Keywords: first novel, historical mystery, Mysteries: historical, russia, secret police, serial killer, soviet union, stalin, thriller award
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  • THE SECRET SPEECH. by Smith, Tom Robb,
    Smith, Tom Robb,
    THE SECRET SPEECH.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring former MGB officer Leo Demidov, set in 1956 Russia: Stalin is dead and the violent regime is beginning to fracture, An equally gripping sequel to his award-winning 'Child 44.' 403 pp. ISBN: 9780446402408.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 55082
    Keywords: historical mystery, kruschchev, Mysteries: historical, russia, secret police, serial killer, soviet union, stalin
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  • AGENT 66. by Smith, Tom Robb,
    Smith, Tom Robb,
    AGENT 66.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012.). First edition - The final novel in the award-winning Child 44 trilogy. Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his family to the US as part of a "Peace Tour" and when that ends in tragedy, he is forbidden to investigate. An epic novel ranging from the 1950s and 1960s to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. 467 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to the edges of the textblock)

    Book ID: 80493
    Keywords: arc, historical mystery, Mysteries: historical, russia, secret police, soviet union, stalin, uncorrected proof
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