Red Chameleon: An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov MysteryThe violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . . A ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscow's streets . . . High above the gray city, a sniper is taking aim at police officers, and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . . "Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers." Washington Post Book World |
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... turned , pulling a hollow metal tube of twelve inches or so from her bag . Quickly , without looking back , she leaned forward and thrust the steel tube against the car's window . Her arms were strong and the thrust powerful . The bar ...
... turned , pulling a hollow metal tube of twelve inches or so from her bag . Quickly , without looking back , she leaned forward and thrust the steel tube against the car's window . Her arms were strong and the thrust powerful . The bar ...
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... turned to Karpo . " They are parasites , " shouted the man with no balls . " Hah , " croaked the lungless one . " You can't even keep your insults straight . You are the parasite . " " Quiet , ” shouted the woman . She turned to Karpo ...
... turned to Karpo . " They are parasites , " shouted the man with no balls . " Hah , " croaked the lungless one . " You can't even keep your insults straight . You are the parasite . " " Quiet , ” shouted the woman . She turned to Karpo ...
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... turned , and we followed it , afraid that we had made a mistake and were now bound in the wrong di- rection , had somehow missed a turn and were headed into the vastness of an endless Russia toward Moscow ; but the road gradually turned ...
... turned , and we followed it , afraid that we had made a mistake and were now bound in the wrong di- rection , had somehow missed a turn and were headed into the vastness of an endless Russia toward Moscow ; but the road gradually turned ...
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