An award-winning journalist with 20 years of experience in Washington and Moscow, Robert Cullen unfolds a riveting story of murder, greed, and corruption at the highest levels of power in Russia in this suspenseful thriller, originally published in 1996. Gorky Park with an American protagonist and a nifty art-history element. This enormously authoritative espionage is third in the Colin Burke series.  (RUS363, $14.95)

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