Monstrum

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m \ ussla In the early years of the twenty-first ontuiy: a civfl war has subsided Into an uneasy peace; Police Inspector Constantin Vadim Is plucked from the backwater of Murmansk to head up an Investigation in the decaying and crime-rldden Red Presnya district of Moscow. His task: to solve a succession of brutal murders committed by a killer who has become a terrifying local legend: The Monstrum.
But VadIm has never Investigated a murder. The real reason for his transfer Is his uncanny resemblance to the new vice-president, Koba - Vadim is — his double. Why then has he been given the
Impossible mission to find The Monstrum? H ll^ Is the case in some way linked to the new
fe government? VadIm finds himself at one
* I I moment on the bloodstained social fringe of
k É , Moscow and the next at the very centre of 1 I the new Russia - a position which ?ilso attracts
I ^ I the attention of his estranged wife, Julia f * Petrovna, a general In the defeated Anarchist
, f " army. Her... Tovább

Fülszöveg

m \ ussla In the early years of the twenty-first ontuiy: a civfl war has subsided Into an uneasy peace; Police Inspector Constantin Vadim Is plucked from the backwater of Murmansk to head up an Investigation in the decaying and crime-rldden Red Presnya district of Moscow. His task: to solve a succession of brutal murders committed by a killer who has become a terrifying local legend: The Monstrum.
But VadIm has never Investigated a murder. The real reason for his transfer Is his uncanny resemblance to the new vice-president, Koba - Vadim is — his double. Why then has he been given the
Impossible mission to find The Monstrum? H ll^ Is the case in some way linked to the new
fe government? VadIm finds himself at one
* I I moment on the bloodstained social fringe of
k É , Moscow and the next at the very centre of 1 I the new Russia - a position which ?ilso attracts
I ^ I the attention of his estranged wife, Julia f * Petrovna, a general In the defeated Anarchist
, f " army. Her capture would be a high prize for ' • \ the men who run Vadlm's life. And as Vadim
'<i3L- ^ mk pursues The Monstrum these two worlds
move Inexorably closer to one another, threatening both to crush the Inspector before he can capture the killer and the emerging democracy before It Is fully formed.
'Monstrum Is an original - both a sophisticated thriller and a thought-provoking novel which looks Into the future of that most turbulent of countries, Russia. I read Monstrum at warp speed, and with real pleasure.' Richard North Patterson
TI:JJM II- / I xmi l-u Vissza