"CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who--unbeknownst to CIA--is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank....

Twin brothers Yarik and Dima find themselves representing opposing ideologies in a dystopian world where they labor together in a sea of glass lit by space mirrors that keep the citizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight.

When Anna buys an old guitar for her husband, she has no idea that it holds a death curse.

Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal which has gone bad-when it suddenly turns nightmarish. Shooting David and kidnapping Patty, their Russian business partners drive her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Moscow. There, her captors-along with brutal Islamic terrorists-will attempt to ransom her. Patty will face the most frightening ordeal imaginable. For the first time in history, FBI agents must work with...

The investigator Boris Veresen uses a cat to solve a century old crime.

"On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum-before a new democracy had time to put down roots-surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or 'roof'-protection...

"Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed." The Incompletes begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete meaning of the day's events, the narrator must first take us on an international tour-from the docks of Buenos Aires, to Barcelona, until we check in at the gloomy Hotel Salgado with the narrator's transient friend Felix in Moscow....

"Polit͡sii͡a zaderzhivaet Ani͡u na antikorrupt͡sionnom mitinge, i sud otpravli͡aet ee pod arest na 10 sutok. Tak Ani͡a vpervye okazyvaetsi͡a v spet͡spriemnike, gde, po ee mnenii͡u, sidi͡at odni khuligany i pʹi͡anit͡sy. V kamere, odnako, ona vstrechaet zhenshchin, popavshikh si͡uda za samye nichtozhnye provinnosti. Ti͡uremnye dni ti͡anutsi͡a dolgo, i uznit͡sy, mechtai͡a o skorom osvobozhdenii, obshchai͡utsi͡a, igrai͡ut, otkryvai͡ut...