Dispatch from a Cold Country - Couverture souple

Cullen, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933397896 ISBN 13 : 9781933397894

Editeur : Felony & Mayhem, 2008

Synopsis

Recalled to Washington and riding an editor's desk, journalist Colin Burke itches to be back in Russia. A friend's murder is hardly the cause he would have wished for, so it's with a mix of guilt and eagerness that he picks up his reporter's notebook again, and heads for St. Petersburg. Poking around the seedy, familiar corridors of Russian politics and police bureaucracy, Burke is in his element, but as the threads of the murder seem increasingly to lead to the Hermitage - one of the world's great museums - he may be out of his depth. Someone seems to have been planning to steal some of the museum's priceless paintings, but Burke knows nothing about art. Fumbling his way into instant expertise, he could have the story that will cap his career. But there's a good chance that he'll get capped instead.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An award-winning journalist with twenty years of experience in Washington and Moscow, Robert Cullen has won critical acclaim and a wide readership as a novelist. Now, in Dispatch from a Cold Country, Cullen unfolds a riveting story of murder, greed, high-stakes crime, and corruption at the highest levels of power in today's Russia.
Though recently promoted from reporter to editor at The Washington Tribune, Colin Burke has few illusions about life. It's a cold, hard fact: the closer things get to Burke, the more detached he becomes. Then Jennifer Morellione-- his eager, young protégé--places an urgent, breathless call from Frankfurt. Morelli has stumbled onto the story of a lifetime in St. Petersburg, and she has film to back up her findings. The subject is too hot to discuss over the phone, but she wants Burke to publish the story. They arrange to meet in Washington, D.C., that night.
She never makes the meeting. And to find out why, Burke returns to Russia--where he had put in long, hard years as a reporter--and tries to piece together the story that Morelli uncovered.
As Burke gropes through the dark, seedy maze of Russian politics, he suspects that the Hermitage, a place of pure beauty filled with the world's most breathtaking art, is at the center of the dark scandal Morelli was about to expose. He follows his hunch and becomes involved with a ravishing African-American woman named Desdemona McCoy, a Petersburg art gallery owner who may be more than she appears. Their passionate, tumultuous love affair is but one more strange twist in a tangled web of betrayal and clandestine maneuvering. For what Burke discovers blows all his expectations out of the water: a crisis that could explode the fragile Russian government.
Writing with an insider's intimacy about the uses and abuses of power, Robert Cullen brings to life the intersecting worlds of art, espionage, and politics. A spellbinder of a book, at once deeply literate and relentlessly exciting, Dispatch from a Cold Country propels Robert Cullen into the top ranks of suspense writers.

Biographie de l'auteur

A reporter abroad and in Washington, D.C., for two decades, Robert Cullen won an Overseas Press Club award for foreign reporting during his stint as Newsweek's Moscow correspondent. His novels include Cover Story and Soviet Sources, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Killer Department, which was made into an HBO original movie under the title Citizen X. Cullen makes his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He can be reached on-line at 71370.1620@compuserve.com.
From the Paperback edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Felony & Mayhem
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933397896
• ISBN 13: 9781933397894
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 201
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible