Description
Description
A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow.
Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell's masterful "Mother Russia" transports readers back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of Soviet society. Robespierre Pravdin is a black marketeer who prowls Moscow's streets and alleys hustling wristwatches. Wishing only to survive in a city suffocated by paranoia and schizophrenia, Robespierre manages to make a tidy profit and stay under the state's radar-until, one day, he meets the woman called "Mother Russia" and becomes ensnared in the Byzantine and profoundly dangerous game of politics. This is another darkly engrossing pageturner from the bestselling author of "The Sisters" and "The Defection of A. J. Lewinter."
About the Author
About the Author
Robert Littell is the author of twenty-two other highly acclaimed novels, many about the Cold War and the Soviet Union, including his masterwork, New York Times bestseller The Company, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award winner for best mystery-thriller Legends. An American born in Brooklyn, Robert Littell now lives in France. Alma Katsu is a 30+ year veteran of the intelligence business. She is the author of two spy novels, Red Widow and Red London, and two novellas, Black Vault and The Spy Who Vanished. All of her espionage stories have been optioned for television series.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Praise for Robert Littell "If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have."
--Tom Clancy
"A Littell spy novel is always elaborately detailed, fun to read--and then just when you are being handed a few laughs, it blows up in your face."
--The New York Times "Compulsive reading from start to finish."
--The Boston Globe "Hugely entertaining . . . Popular fiction at its finest."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Littell is so gifted a creator of intelligent entertainment that I could give away almost everything and still not spoil your pleasure in reading."
--NPR's All Things Considered "[Littell's] variety of genre fiction deals with one of the oldest themes in Western art, the wavering line between illusion and reality."
--Chicago Tribune
--Tom Clancy
"A Littell spy novel is always elaborately detailed, fun to read--and then just when you are being handed a few laughs, it blows up in your face."
--The New York Times "Compulsive reading from start to finish."
--The Boston Globe "Hugely entertaining . . . Popular fiction at its finest."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Littell is so gifted a creator of intelligent entertainment that I could give away almost everything and still not spoil your pleasure in reading."
--NPR's All Things Considered "[Littell's] variety of genre fiction deals with one of the oldest themes in Western art, the wavering line between illusion and reality."
--Chicago Tribune
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Soho Crime
Pub date:
2026-04-21
Length:
288 pages
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