Dead Meat - Hardcover

Kerr, Philip

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701147032 ISBN 13: 9780701147037

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1993

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Set in Leningrad in 1993, this book features a hard-bitten detective called Grushko. The background is the chaos that follows the collapse of the old order - the growing black market, the mafia and the neo-Nazi factions. When a journalist is murdered, Grushko investigates.

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A tough, smart cop must use all her powers of intuition, to track the sociopath who wants to draw her into a chilling dialogue about the nature of life itself.

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EVERYONE IS GUILTY OF SOMETHING... In comtemporary Russia the old ghosts have been laid to rest, but the stench of corruption is just as strong as ever. Now a top-level Moscow investigator, dispatched to St. Petersburg, is about to discover just how deep the decadence runs--in both the corridors of power and the labyrinth of the human heart. The man from Moscow has been teamed up with Grushko, a palm-reading local detective with Elvis Presley hair. Together they embark on a investigation into the brutal murder of a famous and controversial journalist. To Grushko, an expert in the ruthlessness of the rising Russian Mafia, the killing has all the earmarks of a professional hit. But in the new Russia appearances have almost as little value as the new ruble. Soon the focus of the investigation will fall on the journalist's widow, a pinup beauty whom one detective will find impossible to trust...the other to resist

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