The White Russian: A Novel - Hardcover

Bradby, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0385508409 ISBN 13: 9780385508407

Verlag: Doubleday, 2003

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Book by Bradby Tom

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In 1917 St. Petersburg, a city on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, chief inspector of the St. Petersburg police, investigates the brutal murders of a young couple--a nanny at the tsar's palace and a young American from Chicago--found stabbed to death on the ice of the river Neva, just outside the Winter Palace. By the author of The Master of Rain.

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tersburg, 1917 — the glittering capital of the Tsarist empire and a city on the brink of revolution– where the jackals of the secret police maneuver for their own survival and their aristocratic masters indulge in one final moment of hedonism.

For Sandro Ruzsky, chief investigator of the St. Petersburg police department, this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Recently returned from a three-year banishment to Siberia (for pursuing a case his superiors would have like buried), Ruzsky is welcomed back to the city of his birth by a gruesome discovery: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen river Neva just outside the Tsar’s Winter Palace.

The dead woman was a nanny at the palace, the man, an American from Chicago. The brutality of their deaths seems an allegory for the times, and the investigation leads Ruzsky, at every turn, dangerously close to the royal family. He is also drawn back to Maria–a beau

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385508409
• ISBN 13: 9780385508407
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 444