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NY,NY: Random House Inc, 1981. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Book has tiny name written in ink on ffp, light soiling at page edges. Jacket shows yellowing which is usual with this title, light soiling, Made into a major motion picture. A Soviet investigator and an American policeman try to solve the murder of three young people in Gorky Park. One of the best Russian Mystery ever written.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arbor House Pub Co, 1989. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Russian mystery set amongst the backdrop of the international Art World.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's first crime thriller, set in the Russia of the early 21st century, and introducing Police Inspector Constantin Vadim who is plucked from his native Murmansk to hunt down a serial killer in Moscow known as the Monstrum, the only problem is that Vadim has never investigated a murder before.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Villard, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's first crime thriller, set in the Russia of the early 21st century, and introducing Police Inspector Constantin Vadim who is plucked from his native Murmansk to hunt down a serial killer in Moscow known as the Monstrum, the only problem is that Vadim has never investigated a murder before.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited., 1981. 1st edition. Publishers black boards with fresh, bright gold lettering at spine. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in very slightly sun tanned, protective mylar cover. Ivan Duvakin, a sad sack security officer at The Red October, a rundown Moscow hotel, is the unlikely protagonist in this novel, when he finds a dead body in one of the rooms. Olcott does an outstanding job of describing life in Moscow, circa late 1970s. The numbing cold of winter, the stark living conditions, the sense that one is always being watched and the ubiquitousness of black market commerce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Encampment, Wyoming: USA: Affiliated Writers of America, 1994. 1st edition. Fine in dust jacket. 498 pages. "The collapse of communism hasn't eliminated Russia as a setting for novels of suspense and intrigue. Set around the 1991 coup attempt that toppled Mikhail Gorbachev but failed to reassert hardline Communist rule and while leading inadvertently to the collapse of the Soviet Union, this vigorously researched but hamfisted thriller from the author of The French Connection turns on the risk of the Russian mafia stealing and reselling nuclear material and weapons. Just before the failed putsch, master criminal Slava Yakovlev, aka ``the Jap,'' imprisoned in a cell whose bribe-begotten comforts temper its Siberian setting, manipulates his release in order to fend off challenges to his far-flung empire and implement the mother of all crimes. The Jap puts into motion a complicated plan by which his underlings extract brutal revenge on the KGB officers who gang-raped beautiful young… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Beaufort Books, 1985. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover.. A music related mystery based upon the Tchaikovsky International Music Competetion in Moscow.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st U.S. edition, March 1998. [ previously published as 'Red Mercury Blues in Great Britian], with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book introducing NYC cop Artie Cohen, who has no intention of looking back to the past he left behind twent-five years earlier in Moscow. But when a former Russian general is shot to death, a friend of Artie's father, he takes the case which lands him in the heart of the Brighton Beach Mafia and eventually to Moscow. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1992. 1st edition, so stated. Page edges lightly spotted else near fine in dust jacket. An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Back in Moscow during a coup Arkady also has to deal with the Russian Mafia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1992. 1st edition, so stated. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. . An Inspector Arkady Renko title. Moscow. The Soviet upheavals have fueled the glowing talent of Smith (Gorky Park), America's preeminent writer of Russia-based thrillers. Investigator Arkady Renko returns from exile on the Polar Star fleet to find the new Moscow a dramatic battlefield of warlords and entrepreneurs; behind it, as still as a painted backdrop, eight million people standing in line. An ingenious bomb kills Renko's informer the banker for freewheeling black marketeers-leading Arkady's team through the quicksand of mafia-dominated official graft. His workaholic forensics expert, Polina (who must wait in line for morgue time as well as for beets), identifies the bomb method, leading Arkady too close for aparatchik comfort. He is bumped from the case, but only after a clue from the dead man's fax (Where is Red Square?) points him toward a Munich connection.… Read More

NY: Pocket Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Jake Grafton title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Communism has collapsed and the Russian Mafia are fattening themselves on capitalism's easy picking and into that setting of Moscow and New York comes Sasha, seeking the fabulous cache of art plundered by the Germans and stolen by the Red Army.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket.. An unidentified corpse found in a hotel room. A baffled police investigator turning for help to a cynical, disillusioned private investigator. A few fistfights, a bit of sex and red herrings galore. These may seem no more than typical conventions for a detective novel of the hard-boiled school. But U.S.S.A. is far more. Its setting is the near future, in a Russia conquered by the U.S. after WW III, which ended not in Armageddon, but with the failure of Soviet missile systems to function. Madsen ( Black Plume ) convincingly depicts an occupation more entrepreneurial than military. Yesterday's enemies are today's customers: Golden Arches and the Goodyear Blimp, American Express and 7-11, all have emigrated; a Disneyland is under construction in Moscow. Private eye Dan Joplin, a CIA agent whose job disappeared with victory, walks mean streets from booming downtown Moscow to a Siberia devastated by nuclear attack, where survivors… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow, 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED and dated year of publication. "An unidentified corpse found in a hotel room. A baffled police investigator turning for help to a cynical, disillusioned private investigator. A few fistfights, a bit of sex and red herrings galore. These may seem no more than typical conventions for a detective novel of the hard-boiled school. But U.S.S.A. is far more. Its setting is the near future, in a Russia conquered by the U.S. after WW III, which ended not in Armageddon, but with the failure of Soviet missile systems to function. Madsen ( Black Plume ) convincingly depicts an occupation more entrepreneurial than military. Yesterday's enemies are today's customers: Golden Arches and the Goodyear Blimp, American Express and 7-11, all have emigrated; a Disneyland is under construction in Moscow. Private eye Dan Joplin, a CIA… Read More