It is a riveting book and should be read by people having interest in politics. There are no comments yet 0. Listen related books:. Any Day Now. Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel. Mind Game. Granny Dan. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Trump had just flown home to New York from Moscow. Now arrived a consolation prize of sorts. What the letter said has never been revealed. The House and Senate Intelligence committees launched their Russia probes more than a year ago.
Special counsel Robert S. These hard-hitting investigative reporters deliver the last for this month, at least word on Trump's mysterious infatuation with Putin. Mar It would be a lie to say that Russian Roulette , one of this spring's nonfiction revelation-packed potboilers that's been keeping cable news anchors crackling with over-caffeinated and doom-glinted glee, reads like a spy novel.
Nobody would accuse authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn of being all style and no substance. With decades of experience from working the capital's cloakrooms and briefing rooms, they are deft practitioners of the modern craft of political book prose. It's a style intended to read like quality long-form news writing of the kind we are inundated with each day, only with the occasional transition bolted on at the end of the chapter to remind you, "Yes!
By continuing, you agree to our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy. We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. In , a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway.
But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes-starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world.
They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. Cumming's network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one day become MI6. Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka the feared secret police , and would come within a whisker of assassinating Lenin.
In a sequence of bold exploits that stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin's plot for global revolution.
A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight, set in London and Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Russian detectives set to trail a suspected thief have all their expectations confounded In this personal memoir from inside the mind of depression, the author addresses the use of medication, the misuse of drugs, and the unnatural fallout of common joy. Life After Russian Roulette is a psychological thriller based on true accounts from my life as an undercover detective in Baltimore during the s.
Immersed in a world of drug groups, organized crime, and police corruption, I became addicted to 'the game' as I wrestled mentally with illegal, unethical, and immoral choices as the lines between right and wrong blurred before my eyes to justify the end goal. To catch the worst criminals, we had to become criminals ourselves.
This moral downslide leads to depression, suicidal thoughts, and mentally destructive actions as I numbed my feelings with increased addiction to alcohol. After suspension and resignation from the force, the ghosts continued to haunt me. The thought of death became my only escape from the hell I created.
Eventually, a near fatal accident almost ended my life. High on morphine in a hospital, I would make a commitment to God for saving my life. I would enter seminary, receive ordination, and enter parish ministry. Still struggling spiritually to find my faith, I would finally find the one blessing I had been searching for all my life--love.
Washington D. His client is a Russian assassin who will kill Hannibal's beloved, Cindy Santiago, if Hannibal refuses to help him. With no choice, Hannibal agrees to investigate the smooth, wealthy Algerian who has stolen the heart of the woman his new client loves. At first the case looks simple, but Hannibal's view quickly changes when evidence surfaces connecting the Algerian to Russian mob money and the apparent suicide of the girl's father several years earlier.
Further investigation reveals that the Algerian may not be who he says he is.
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