Sometimes lies are safer than the truth...25% Emotional, 25% Dark, 25% Witty, 25% Rite of PassageWhen her mother is knocked down and killed by a London bus, fifteen-year-old Melon Fouraki is left with no family worth mentioning. Her mother, Maria, never did introduce Melon to a 'living, breathing' f
Red Ink
โ Scribed by Dinallo, Greg
- Book ID
- 108465170
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497655614
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โฆ Synopsis
When onetime dissident journalist Nikolai Katkov is tipped off to the murder of a highly placed government official, he doesn't count on the trail twisting into the lurid world of Moscow mafia casino-owner Arkady Barkhin. After Katkov's relentless digging almost gets him gunned down, he receives an unexpected appeal for help from the striking Gabby Scotto, a US Treasury special agent. She has been tracking laundered money flowing out of the US--an investigation that has led to Barkhin's casino and a similar dead end. But then Katkov obtains a sensitive government document that could shatter Russia's fragile and newly free economy--and join Scotto in Washington to pick up the trail.Katkov's tenaciousness in pursuit of a story has been honed by decades of KGB harassment, and his survival instincts--notwithstanding a penchant for vodka and American cigarettes--by a few hard years in the Gulag. He senses a kindred spirit in the vivacious Broolynite whose bravado...
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