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Moscow's top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There's Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There's young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there's Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?

A naked bearlike man bursts into Rostnikovs wifes hospital room with a shocking story about a devil invading his shoe factory. Intrigued, Rostnikov investigates and plunges into a mysterious criminal scene of such depth that the chief inspector stoops to committing a crime of his own. Meanwhile, a frantic woman tells headquarters of her own sons imminent felony against the politburo....A Moscow bus and its driver mysteriously...

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov of the Moscow police goes to Cuba to investigate a Russian engineer, accused of killing a Cuban woman. The probe requires some tricky footwork to avoid being sucked into local intrigues. By the author of Death of a Russian Priest.

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his colleagues on the Moscow police force battle rival gangs while trying to rid the capital of a new form of entertainment-- dog fights. A look at crime in post-communist Russia.

Penzler Pick, December 2001: This is a compulsively readable tour de force that keeps more balls in the air than a pitching machine. On top of that, in this 14th novel featuring the one-legged Moscow cop Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, Stuart Kaminsky once again catapults us straight from our armchairs into the mindset of modern Russia in all its perverse dysfunctions. Kaminsky must have had fun cooking up the plotlines, which ingeniously plunder the...

In post-Soviet Union Russia, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov must search for a serial killer who has claimed at least forty victims, while also protecting a British journalist who is researching a story about a Moscow prostitution ring.