Trans-Siberian Express - Couverture rigide

Adler, Warren

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333223063 ISBN 13 : 9780333223062

Editeur : Macmillan, 1977

Synopsis

Dr. Alex Cousins knows a dark secret - one that means the Soviet Union will stop at nothing to keep him in Siberia on the world's longest train ride....

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Présentation de l'éditeur

American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is on a covert mission to the USSR. He is tasked with prolonging the life of Soviet Politburo Chief, Viktor Moiseyevich Dimitrov, who is suffering from advanced stage leukemia. But the tenuous confidence between the unlikely colleagues is shattered one night as Alex accidentally discovers Dimitrov’s diabolical plans for a nuclear strike on China. Alex soon finds himself dispatched, homeward bound, on a six-thousand-mile journey aboard the Trans-Siberian Express; long enough, Alex realizes, to silence him from alerting the U.S. of the imminent destruction. Reluctant at first to embark upon the journey, Alex is beckoned into the Siberian expanse by memories of his grandfather, Aleksandr Kuznetzov, who wove tales of magic and mystery into this seemingly desolate place. As the train lumbers east across snow-cloaked mountains, glimmering past a forest glow, watchful eyes rest on the American doctor. Surrounding him are people beaten and broken by life, each drawn to this emperor of trains in search of a brighter future. But most curious is Anna Petrovna Valentinova, the hauntingly beautiful history professor and Alex’s alluring travelling companion. As Anna captivates Alex with illusions of her homeland, a passionate romance transcending political barriers unfolds under KGB surveillance. A train attendant yearns for love, a deformed man seeks revenge on an old enemy, and a persecuted Jewish couple runs to a new home as the Trans-Siberian Express roars onward through a cavern of hopes and memories, coloring its tracks with tales of love, loss, and nuclear intrigue from one end of Russia to the other.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333223063
• ISBN 13: 9780333223062
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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