Donald James — Vadim

Arrow Books Ltd 2001 Paperback, 512pp. Inspector Constantin Vadim swaps a Moscow of disease and post-civil war corruption for a Manhattan of political intrigue and murder. A series of killings, an unstable Russian wife and sexual scandal threaten an American Presidential candidate. Ben Rushton is the one man the people believe capable of saving the old enemy Russia and their own country from collapse. Vadim's task is to find the killer before Rushton is destroyed. His search sweeps over two continents, from the campaign headquarters in rural Connecticut back home to ice-bound Murmansk. Only the dark and bloody corridors of Russia's past will lead him to the terrible truth of the present. (ISBN: 9780099410645). Good.