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Published by Henry Holt and Co
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The explosive debut introducing Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy
-- not since Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne has a hero shifted so
effortlessly between hunter and
hunted A firefight reverberates through Moscow's dark, rain-soaked streets;
shattered glass and screams echo in the air. In the lawless ways of
Russia's capital city, the gunmen melt away into the night. Two men are
dead, the targets not what they seem. A shadowy figure lopes along the riverbank outside the Kremlin
walls. Known to all as Volk, a battle-hardened veteran of Russia's
brutal war in Chechnya, he prowls Moscow's grim alleyways, a knife
concealed in his prosthetic foot at all times. As both a major player in the black market and a covert agent for
the Russian military, Volk serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic Azeri
mafia kingpin with hordes of loyal informers; and a man known only as
the General, to whom Volk is mysteriously indebted. By his side is
Valya, an exotic beauty charged with protecting her lover from his
unsavory associates. Valya is the most dangerous weapon in Volk's
arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a long-lost da Vinci
painting called Leda and the Swan from St. Petersburg's
Hermitage Museum. Leda's ethereal radiance is undeniably captivating
and incalculably dangerous. Volk must choose which powerful man he will
betray in order to escape with the painting -- and with his life. With the high-octane rush and vivid intensity of a feature film,
Volk's Game delivers at every turn, announcing Alexei Volkovoy as
the boldest hero of a new generation. pub date: 2007-06-12 | hardcover | 9780805082548 |
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