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A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow. Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell's masterful Mother Russia transports listeners back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of Soviet society. Robespierre Pravdin is a black marketeer who prowls Moscow's streets and alleys hustling wristwatches. Wishing only to survive in a city suffocated by paranoia and schizophrenia, Robespierre manages to make a tidy profit and stay under the state's radar-until, one day, he meets the woman called "Mother Russia" and becomes ensnared in the Byzantine and profoundly dangerous game of politics. This is another darkly engrossing must-listen from the bestselling author of The Sisters and The Defection of A. J. Lewinter.
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Robert Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A. J. Lewinter. He is the author of eighteen novels, including the critically acclaimed The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Once and Future Spy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Company and Legends. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet Affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. He was born, raised, and educated in New York.