The White Russian: A Novel - Rilegato

Bradby, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0385508409 ISBN 13: 9780385508407

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2003

Riassunto

In 1917 St. Petersburg, a city on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, chief inspector of the St. Petersburg police, investigates the brutal murders of a young couple--a nanny at the tsar's palace and a young American from Chicago--found stabbed to death on the ice of the river Neva, just outside the Winter Palace. By the author of The Master of Rain.

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Praise for The Master of Rain
“Exotic Shanghai of 1926...has been enterprisingly summoned by Mr. Bradby. In this ambitious, atmospheric crime novel...a city on the brink is recreated with impressive diligence. The physical details are strong and the politics appropriately ominous. Chinatown via Casablanca.”
–New York Times

“Tom Bradby’s expert evocation of the hothouse atmosphere of Twenties Shanghai makes an exotic backdrop to a crackling murder mystery. This is an immensely atmostpheric, gripping detective story with just the right mixture of exoticism, violence, and romance.”
-The Times (London)

“Tense and rather lush, expertly working the wonderful setting without overplaying the cultural clash: eerily well suited to these parlous times.”
-Kirkus Reviews

"Rich, dark, atmospheric, this fine novel captures time and place perfectly... It's a great crime story that ends up in a place you won't predict ... and a great love story that you desperately hope will end up in the place you predict."
–Lee Child, bestselling author of Without Fail

“As we turn the pages and stray deeper into Tom Bradby's decadent, strangely perfumed world, we grow aware that something sinister lies just beyond the reach of our vision, something we cannot see but that we nevertheless know is there. The Master of Rain is an astonishing, haunting, masterful debut.”
–Lincoln Child, bestselling author of Utopia

“Beneath the surface of this clever book, a thrilling yarn of murder and mayhem, we find a wise, richly layered, and utterly convincing portrait of what was the most evil and fatally fascinating of all the modern world's cities. No one has managed to bring Shanghai so alive in all its ghastly splendor.”
–Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman

L'autore:

Tom Bradby is a correspondent for ITN. He is the acclaimed author of three previous novels, Shadow Dancer, The Sleep of the Dead and The Master of Rain.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385508409
• ISBN 13: 9780385508407
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 444