| Dispatch from a Cold Country Contributor(s): Cullen, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933397896 ISBN-13: 9781933397894 Publisher: Felony & Mayhem OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 Annotation: Gorky Park with an American protagonist and a nifty art-history element. *Third in the Colin Burke series *Enormously authoritative espionage; author was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief for 15 years. *Critics have called the series better than Gorky Park. *A terrific combination of classic espionage and classic private-eye novel; additionally, the art-history angle will appeal to yet another audience (particularly women). *An intricately plotted thriller ... the stuff that keeps readers up well past bedtime - Los Angeles Times *More than an effective page-turner, this is good enough that one wishes to call it a fine novel - Kirkus *An excellent thriller, with clever twists and masterful styling - Publishers Weekly *Richly detailed and relentlessly suspenseful - West Coast Review of Books *...series hallmarks such as a strong sense of place and fast pacing make this a priority purchase for fiction collections. - Library Journal |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Colin Burke Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 7.3" (1.20 lbs) 201 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recalled to Washington and riding an editor's desk, journalist Colin Burke itches to be back in Russia. A friend's murder is hardly the cause he would have wished for, so it's with a mix of guilt and eagerness that he picks up his reporter's notebook again, and heads for St. Petersburg. Poking around the seedy, familiar corridors of Russian politics and police bureaucracy, Burke is in his element, but as the threads of the murder seem increasingly to lead to the Hermitage - one of the world's great museums - he may be out of his depth. Someone seems to have been planning to steal some of the museum's priceless paintings, but Burke knows nothing about art. Fumbling his way into instant expertise, he could have the story that will cap his career. But there's a good chance that he'll get capped instead. |