The Fedorovich File - Hardcover

Spencer, Ross H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556112491 ISBN 13: 9781556112492

Publisher: Dutton, 1991

Lacey Lockington--a hard drinking, hard-living cop turned detective--trails a Soviet defector to Youngstown, Ohio, where the defector, former general Alexi Fedorovich, may have information about an imminent Soviet invasion

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About the Author:

Ross H. Spencer was born in Hughart, West Virginia and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. During World War II, he served with the 37th Infantry Division on New Georgia, on Bougainville, and in the Philippines. Following the war, he moved to Chicago to be near the Chicago Cubs, the ball club of his choice since 1932. He served again, this time with the Air Force during the Korean Emergency or whatever it was.Ross H. Spencer was the father of three wonderful daughters and the proud husband of Shirley, the most beautiful lady on earth. In 1987, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, where he spent the remaining 11 years of his life.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Leaden follow-up to the lighthearted, ebullient The Devereaux File (1990), which introduced Ohio p.i. Lacey Lockington to the adorable, mysterious defecting spy Natasha. Here, Lacey's hired to corral another Russian defector who's come to roost in unlikely Youngstown, only this one is a biggie: General Alexi Fedorovich, author of The Wheels of Treachery, an expos‚ of glasnost/perestroika. Soon the bodies start flying, and so many Russians have infiltrated the Youngstown environs that it's like a Moscow suburb. While Lacey's dodging both them and the feds, Natasha tries to unravel the code on Fedorovich's book cover--but it'll take Lacey's new (mostly unwanted) assistant, Barney Kozlowski, an inveterate reader of derring-do, to find the missing clue to Fedorovich's whereabouts. Five murders, innumerable threats, tails, punches, and one bombing later, Lacey is settin' on the porch with the troublesome general and contemplating life as his son-in-law.... Very strained, but old pro Spencer keeps it all moving with spurts of narrative gusto. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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