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Monstrum: A Novel - Hardcover

James, Donald

 
9780679457701: Monstrum: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679457704 ISBN 13: 9780679457701
Verlag: Villard Books, 1997

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A murder mystery in Russia against the background of a failed rebellion. The protagonist is Constantin Vadim, a detective investigating traffic in human organs. The probe is complicated by political intrigue and Vadim's ex-wife, a rebel general who is seeking his help to leave the country.In Russia in the not-too-distant future, a provincial detective finds himself pitted against a serial killer at the center of a conspiracy of politics and lies

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Donald James is a veteran novelist, a successful writer for television--most recently, he was the scriptwriter of Russia's War, a ten-part PBS series to be broadcast this fall--and a renowned historian whose works include The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich and the bestselling The Fall of the Russian Empire. He lives in England.

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ia, 2015: Nationalist forces have finally defeated the Anarchist rebels, but it is an uneasy peace. Provincial police inspector Constantin Vadim is plucked from backwater Murmansk to head up a murder investigation in the decaying, crime-ridden Red Presnya district of Moscow. His task: to solve a succession of unspeakable crimes committed by a serial killer who has become a terrifying local legend, almost a cult symbol: Monstrum.<br> <br>In the suspenseful tradition of Gorky Park and Fatherland, Donald James's Monstrum is a political thriller that also features a hunt for a brutal murderer. And, in Inspector Vadim, James has created a cynical but all-too-human hero, who navigates across a Russian terrain at once familiar and frighteningly new.<br> <br>Vadim unwittingly discovers governmental intrigue and conspiratorial deceptions so terrible they threaten to undermine the revamped Russia. And when his past--in the form of his estranged wife, Julia Petrovna, a general in the defeated Anarchi

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Monstrum

By the time of the third murder, it was a word evoked by every shout of alarm, by every blast on a militia whistle, by every woman's scream in a district of Moscow where shouts and screams had never been uncommon. Within a week of the third murder there were the beginnings of a cult: the word appeared as elaborately worked graffiti on concrete walls; young men swaggered the streets with the word emblazoned across the back of their jackets; in the cellar discos, reckless girls wore T-shirts with the Monstrum's swollen hands engulfing their breasts. But on the streets all women are equal. At night they hurry home no longer thinking of footsteps and snatched purses. A new word -- Monstrum -- has entered their vocabulary of terror. Like a rising tide of infected river water, the word washes against the shanty houses of Red Presnya, swilling through the lives of the inhabitants of the dark alleys and ruined tower blocks, leaving a scum of fear. All this was happening in Moscow in the year 2015, the year Russians had begun to think of as the New Dawn.

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Verlag
Villard Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679457704
ISBN 13 
9780679457701
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
436
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