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Moscow Ain’t Such A Bad Place by Barry Jones MOSCOW 1987: With Gorbachev’s Soviet Union in a state of flux and uncertainty, Londoner Norman ‘Nobby’ Robert Jackson — amateur Classicist, fluent Russianspeaker, business consultant and blackmarketeer living comfortably in Moscow with two mistresses — is approached by a fellow British businessman to locate the ‘Apsheron icon’. All is not what it seems, however. Next day ‘Nobby’ Title: Moscow Ain’t Such A Bad Place discovers the man brutally bludgeoned to death in his Author: Barry Jones ISBN-13: ISBN 9781873976-48-7 hotel room. Who has killed him, and why? Pursued Pages 684 to Yalta with his mistresses, he finds he has become Size: 228 x 152mm the target for a killer. Determined to find those Publisher: ChristieBooks responsible for a series of brutal murders of friends and Published: 23 Septembery, 2011 Binding: Paperback associates attending a British trade exhibition in Price: £15.95 — €20 (+ £4.50 p+p UK) Moscow, ‘Nobby’ finds his quest entangling him with Edition: Trade Paperback Major Shcheglov of the Moscow Police, Grigori Market: Fiction Vladimirovitch of the KGB, and George Trenden, head of the SIS’s Soviet Desk, taking him from Yalta to Moscow, London and Devon and back to Moscow again on the trail of a mysterious and powerful international cabal conspiring to change the course of history. BARRY JONES, Moscow’s own Arthur Dailey, was a scholar, raconteur and Mr Fix-it, well known for his ability to arrange almost anything in the city that he made his home town from 1976 until his expulsion — in chains — from the Russian Federation in 1998. MOSCOW AIN’T SUCH A BAD PLACE, the first of his ‘Moscow’ novels, is a compelling story peopled by fascinating characters, and provides a sympathetic and unique insight into the people and pattern of daily life in Moscow during the heady days of glasnost, perestroika, and the dramatic buildup to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Available from ChristieBooks, PO Box 35, Hastings, East Sussex, TN341ZS christie@btclick.com ChristieBooks
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