Dark Hand From Russia

The Russian mob rules. Igor Oblomov is absolutely ruthless in all of his dealings. High ranking members of the local police department are on the take. A white slavery transaction goes awry. In the process, someones son is murdered and someones daughter is kidnapped. Where does one turn for justice? Ordinary people are thrown into a dark world not of their own choosing. Now, finding themselves in unfamiliar territory, they must fight the Russian mafia to the death. A horrible nightmare ensues.

The Russian mob rules. Igor Oblomov is absolutely ruthless in all of his dealings. High ranking members of the local police department are on the take. A white slavery transaction goes awry. In the process, someone's son is murdered and someone's daughter is kidnapped. Where does one turn for justice? Ordinary people are thrown into a dark world not of their own choosing. Now, finding themselves in unfamiliar territory, they must fight the Russian mafia to the death. A horrible nightmare ensues.

Four extraordinary outlaws go head-to-head with a powerful Russian crime lord in a valiant effort to terminate a viable human trafficking operation. The notorious quartet pursues all available options to liberate the existing abducted young girls and to prevent further kidnappings. Opposing forces collide resulting in explosive action and violent confrontations. Betrayal leads to capture. Tenacity prevails. The final showdown takes place at a remote location.

A recovering alcoholic, on the road to sobriety, attempts to pick up the pieces and passions of his previous life. While hunting on his uncles farm, Eric Horn encounters what he firmly believes to be a werewolf. When he tells his tale, the relatives all scoff at him and suggest that he has incurred some mental damage during his drinking years. Determined to prove them wrong and verify his own claim, Eric formulates a strategy to harvest a werewolf. A personal experience that results in a near death situation teaches him that ordinary bullets cannot kill a werewolf. Knowledge and credibility come from the most unusual people in the strangest places. The truth is revealed. Armed with newly acquired, reliable information, the former drunk embarks on a dangerous quest. However, his relatively simple objective becomes shrouded in complications and surprises.

In the first comprehensive treatment of its kind, Bobo Lo examines the course of Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. Adopting a conceptual approach, he identifies the principal ideological and institutional factors that have influenced the thinking of decisionmaking behind the policies. Bobo Lo challenges many of the conventional assumptions that have dominated much of the preceding literature on Russian foreign policy.

An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and most engaging account available of his rise to power. A gripping, page-turning narrative about Russian power and prestige, the book depicts a cool and calculating leader with enormous ambition and few scruples. As the world struggles to confront a newly assertive Russia, the importance of understanding Putin has never been greater. Vladimir Putin rose out of Soviet deprivation to the pinnacle of influence in the new Russian nation. He came to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes and expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventually prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty and criminality. But soon Putin orchestrated the preservation of a new kind of authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting his country's might, brutally crushing revolts and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained the support of many.

An exploration of Lovell's life and achievements in the scientific and political context of the time The extraordinary life of Bernard Lovell began before World War I and his story encompasses many of the great events of the last 100 years: World War II, the invention of radio astronomy, the space race, the Moon landings, the exploration of the solar system, the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the defense of Britain against nuclear attack. It can now be revealed that he was also a spy. The great radio telescope which Lovell built became and remains one of the most important scientific instruments in the world. The Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Lovell Telescope have held their place at the frontier of research for 55 years. His legacy remains great, as can be seen from the extensive media coverage and personal tributes that his death in 2012 attracted all over the world. With the 70th anniversaries of many wartime events in which he played a crucial role, as well as the recent declassification of information relating to his activities as an agent in the Cold War, this biography is sure to have a broad and timely interest.

Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, “a classic of twentieth-century fiction” (The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit. In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold. At the intersection of fantasy and realism, satire and unflinching emotional truths, Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic The Master and Margarita eloquently lampoons every aspect of Soviet life under Stalin’s regime, from politics to art to religion, while interrogating the complexities between good and evil, innocence and guilt, and freedom and oppression. Spanning from Moscow to Biblical Jerusalem, a vibrant cast of characters—a “magician” who is actually the devil in disguise, a giant cat, a witch, a fanged assassin—sow mayhem and madness wherever they go, mocking artists, intellectuals, and politicians alike. In and out of the fray weaves a man known only as the Master, a writer demoralized by government censorship, and his mysterious lover, Margarita. Burned in 1928 by the author and restarted in 1930, The Master and Margarita was Bulgakov’s last completed creative work before his death. It remained unpublished until 1966—and went on to become one of the most well-regarded works of Russian literature of the twentieth century, adapted or referenced in film, television, radio, comic strips, theater productions, music, and opera.