Viktor - last seen in DEATH AND THE PENGUIN fleeing Mafia\nvengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin. Misha -\nseizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new\nidentity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then\nconvalescent from a heart-transplant,Viktor determines to make\namends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help\nin his election campaign, then introduces him to men who might\nfurther his search for Misha, said to be in a private eye in\nChechnya. What ensues is for Viktor both a quest and an odyssey of\natonement, and. for the reader, an experience as rich, topical and\nilluminating as DEATH AND THE PENGUIN.

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