Black Knight in Red Square, Stuart M. Kaminsky
Black Knight in Red Square, Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Black Knight in Red Square

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrator: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2021


Synopsis

A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" (The Washington Post Book World).

The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one American, one Japanese, and two Russians—will all be dead by morning, poisoned.

To keep the killings under wraps, the Kremlin hands the investigation over to the famously discreet police investigator Porfiry Rostnikov. A hard-boiled cop with more than three decades' experience navigating the deadly jungle of the Soviet bureaucracy, Rostnikov is about to find himself both in the international spotlight and in the crosshairs of a terrorist, who is targeting foreigners to embarrass the Soviet state and will happily sacrifice any Russian who gets in the way.

This Edgar Award–nominated follow-up to Death of a Dissident confirms Stuart Kaminsky's status as "the Ed McBain of Mother Russia" (Kirkus Reviews).

About Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema-two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.

Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.


Reviews

"“You are treading down a dangerous path, Inspector,” he said finally. “It is the nature of existence to recognize and face random disaster that might come our way,” said Rostnikov. “We are but the servants of the state and must not let our individuality stand in the way of the good of the Soviet pe......more

Goodreads review by Mal on November 10, 2020

Why did the Soviet Union implode and the Berlin Wall crumble overnight? For many conservative Americans, the answer is Ronald Reagan. But level-headed analysts have debunked that thesis. In fact, the roots of the crisis that came to a head in the fall of the USSR lay deep in Soviet society. And Edga......more

Goodreads review by Mary on May 30, 2018

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is charged with finding the killers of a number of people during the Moscow film festival. The KGB are also involved, mainly in following the Inspector and his team. He is also practicing for a weightlifting competition. He wants to do his best and at the same time keep o......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 02, 2019

This is the second in the Inspector Rostnikov series. There has been a murder, a poisoning of an American, two soviets and a Japanese citizen at a hotel in Moscow. The American was a journalist reporting on the Moscow Film Festival. The other victims were also connected with the festival. Is this ju......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 04, 2017

Four people are killed in a fancy Moscow Hotel during the Moscow Film Festival, and Rostnikov and his crew realize that the deaths are linked to a terrorist group that the KGB have had their eyes on. Rostnikov is given the job of tracking down the terrorists but he knows that he will be the fall guy......more