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Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A decade after the execution of Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family, the Soviet state offers Pekkala, the Tsar's former right-hand man who is now a prisoner living a harsh existence, a chance to win his freedom in exchange for catching the Romanovs' killers and locating the royal child that is rumored to have survived the execution.
2) The hunted
Author
Language
English
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Description
Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex Konevitch and his wife escape Russia to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country-facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Language
English
Description
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees, while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.