Download or read book Czars Captains Dogs and Thieves written by Wiley L. Lou and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Thief written by William Ryan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Stalin's Great Terror begins, a killer strikes . . . Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia, is asked to investigate. But when he discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD – the most feared organisation in Russia – becomes involved. As more bodies are discovered and the pressure from above builds, Korolev begins to question who he can trust; and who, in this Russia where fear, uncertainty and hunger prevails, are the real criminals. Soon, Korolev will find not only his moral and political ideals threatened, but also his life . . . The first in the Korolev historical crime series, William Ryan's The Holy Thief was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year and the Irish Fiction Award.
Download or read book The Czar s Spy written by William Le Queux and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Czar s Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love written by William le Queux and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1905-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The faithful Francesco, whose English had mostly been acquired from sea-faring men, and was not the choicest vocabulary, nodded, and, true Tuscan that he was, placed his finger upon his closed lips, indicative of silence. "Sounds curious," I remarked. "Since the Consul went away on leave things seem to have been humming—two stabbing affrays, eight drunken seamen locked up, a mutiny on a tramp steamer, and now a yacht being cast away—a fairly decent list! And yet some stay-at-home people complain that British consuls are only paid to be ornamental! They should spend a week here, at Leghorn, and they'd soon alter their opinion." "Yes, they would, signore," responded the thin-faced old fellow with a grin, as he twisted his fierce gray mustache. Francesco Carducci was a well-known character in Leghorn; interpreter to the Consulate, and keeper of a sailor's home, an honest, good-hearted, easy-going fellow, who for twenty years had occupied the same position under half a dozen different Consuls. At that moment, however, there came from the outer office a long-drawn moan.
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