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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781933397580
ISBN number: 1933397586
Label: Felony & Mayhem
Manufacturer: Felony & Mayhem
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 201
Printing Date: February 15, 2007
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Release Date: February 15, 2007
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The Moscow Film Festival may lack Cannes' boats, bikinis, and gentle breezes, but it has nevertheless attracted scores of international actors, directors, and deal-makers. For some, the festival represents Moscow's re-emergence as a world-class city. But for a gang of zealots headed by a beautiful brunette, the festival represents a target, and they have been attacking the 'film people' with frightening efficiency. Desperate to avoid embarrassment, the Kremlin is trying to cover up the killings. And desperate to stop the killers, the KGB has put Inspector Rostnikov on the case. With his Jewish wife and his suspect taste for American crime novels, Rostnikov is hardly the KGB's favorite cop. But he's their best hope to catch the woman with brown hair, complicated motives, and a really big bomb.
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There's Columbo, there's Maigret, and then there's Inspector Rostnikov. After reading one, you'll compulsively go back to the beginning to get them all in the "correct" order. This second in the series continues the process of developing the characters you will come to love. I am now going back and purchasing the series for my son, who is as addicted as I am, to the stories of the persistant senior Inspector with a brain, a conscience, a Jewish wife, and a bum leg. Equally as compelling as the mysteries and the team of detectives is the evolving background of life and change in Russia from the Cold War to the present.
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Before Stuart Kaminsky started getting derivative--and how could he not, with so many novels to his credit?--he wrote about the Soviet Union, before the break-up. This little gem has great characterization, likeable plots,and extremely interesting characters. Rostnikov's world-weary ways are engaging. I miss the Inspector Rostnikov series and hope Kaminsky continues them in some form.
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In this the second of the series, our hero, Chief Inspector Porfiry Petrovich not only foils a terrorist cell that is planning to blow up major historical sites in Moscow, stop a gang that has been beating and raping old women; he also manages to win a weight lifting trophy (for people over 50), and most importantly to fix the toilet of his bulgarian upstairs neighbor. The idea that his home has been bugged by the KGB could never scare a man who knows how to use a wrench.
The most interesting thing that happens during this book is that Rostnikov and his wife (who is jewish) decide to emigrate from the Soviet Union. This book was written in 1989 just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and jewish migration was at it's easiest.
But, once they put in their papers, they will probably both loose their jobs and the effect on Josef in the army in unfathomable. How Porfiry handles this problem is in itself worth the time to read this book.
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Kaminsky is an incredibly prolific writer, but I'd never read anything by him until now. This second book in his long running series starring Russian police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov blurs the line between detective fiction and international spy thriller. What begins as a poisoning case linked to the prestigious Moscow International Film Festival soon ties in to a terrorist plot to set off remote control bombs at Soviet landmarks in Moscow. The result is a book that's partly excellent and partly silly. The silly part is this idea of a fictional international terror cell seeking to destabilize both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. It may be the distance of some twenty years since the book was written, but the whole presentation of their aims is laughable.
However, when Kaminsky sticks to his hero detective and his capable underlings (especially Ivan the Vampire), the book is outstanding. It's a common enough trait of police procedural series that one of the key obstacles the detective faces is his own bureaucracy. This is certainly the case for Rostnikov, however the novelty of the Soviet system keeps the book interesting. Not only the political machinations, but the day to day corruption and seedy underbelly of the socialist capital make the book well worth reading. There's just enough of the private lives of the Soviet cops to round things out nicely. On the whole, an intriguing book despite the laughable villains, and one that'll have me seeking out others in the series.
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This book is a very suspenseful book. When you very first start to read the book you are instintly wraped up in the book. It gives a great information on Russian history, along with the famous buildings in Moscow. This book is about a Chief Inspector named Porfiry Rostnikov would is put on a case that involves 4 men all posined on the same night in the same Moscow hotel. He learns that these murders are done by a darked eyed women who is a terriorst and has many more plans into embarassing Russia. It is up the the Inspector to stop this women before she commits more harm.
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