When a CIA chief from the U.S. Embassy is murdered by thugs in a Moscow restaurant, KGB captain Sergo Chanturia teams up with Ben Martin, an American embassy official, to solve the crime and save face.
This is the first biography of Witte in English.
It is given particular force and liveliness by the portrait gallery of the leading figures of the period; Nicholas II, the Tsaritsa Alexandra, Constantine Pobedonostsev, Sergius Witte, Lenin, Trotsky, Premier Stolypin, Miluikov, and ...
There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous?
The "Night Watch", first book in the "Night Watch" trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light.
In the sequel to Night Watch, the uneasy balance between the forces of Light and Dark is threatened when a priceless and powerful artifact is stolen from the Others and when one of the Dark Ones, a young witch who enhances her evil powers ...
The third in the internationally bestselling series from Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko Three years have passed since the events of The Day Watch.
Full of treachery and intrigue, the fifth volume in Sergei Lukyananko’s internationally bestselling Night Watch series—a mesmerizing blend of noir and urban fantasy, set in contemporary Moscow, that tells the story of an ancient race of ...
The final chapter in Sergei Lukyanenko's internationally bestselling Night Watch series—a revelatory urban fantasy set in contemporary Moscow.
A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold War "If you want to know how America can win today's rivalries with Russia and China, read this book about how it triumphed ...
But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth.