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The Russian Affair
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Author : Michael Wallner
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-04-12
The Russian Affair written by Michael Wallner and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-12 with Fiction categories.
An intriguing love and espionage story set in Moscow in the late 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Viktorovna lives in Moscow with her young son and her father, a once popular and respected poet who has fallen into disgrace because of his dissident views. Her husband, a junior officer in the Red Army, is on active duty and living seven time zones away. Anna struggles gamely through her difficult existence, doing the best she can amidst the long lines, bureaucratic inferno, and corruption and incompetence of the police state. When she meets and makes an impression on a powerful Soviet official—Alexey Bulgyakov—her life begins to look a little brighter. Alexey is married and nearly twice her age, but he turns out to be a man of infinite patience and forbearance, and gradually a strange but solid bond grows between them. Though Anna still loves her mostly absent husband and harbors no illusions about the future, she and Alexey become lovers. Soon Anna and Alexey’s burgeoning romance is irrevocably threatened when a KGB colonel forces Anna to spy on Alexey, who is suspected of disloyalty to the state. Though Anna loathes the notion of double-crossing the man she has come to love, when her family is threatened she must comply. But Anna isn’t the only character playing a double game. With bravura storytelling, stunning authenticity, and complex yet sympathetic characterizations, The Russian Affair depicts a love that struggles to survive against all odds and despite its many-layered deceptions.
The Russian Affair
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Author : David Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-07-23
The Russian Affair written by David Walsh and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you gripped' Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times 'A turbulent but ultimately inspiring tale. The candour...is rare and gripping' Matt Dickinson, The Times It was the story that shocked the world: Russian athletics was revealed to be corrupt from top to bottom, with institutionalised doping used to help the nation's athletes win medals they did not deserve. But the full story of the couple who blew the whistle has never been told - until now. When Russian anti-doping official Vitaly Stepanov met the young 800m athlete Yuliya Rusanova, for him it was love at first sight. Within two months, they were married. But there was a problem – in fact, there were lots of problems. She admitted she was doping and that everyone else was doping, and she let him know that she came from a dark place … It could all have brought a very swift end to a very hasty marriage, but gradually the Stepanovs began to realise that whatever you did, the system in Russia was stacked against you. In the end, the only ones they could rely upon were each other. Fully aware of the risks they were taking, they decided to turn the tables on those who had manipulated them and cheated the sporting world. The result of their investigative work sent shockwaves around the planet and led to Russia’s athletes being banned from world sport, while the Stepanovs themselves had to go into hiding. The Russian Affair is a gripping true-life drama that at times reads like a spy novel and at others like an epic love story. But, at the centre of it all, is a quietly determined couple who knew that if they stood together they could shine a light on a corrupt system and bring it crashing to the ground.
The Russian Affair
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Author : Michael Wallner
language : en
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date : 2011
The Russian Affair written by Michael Wallner and has been published by Nan A. Talese this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
Struggling with her military husband's absence from their Moscow home, Anna spends her days with their young son and her disgraced dissident poet father while engaging in an affair with a powerful Soviet official before she is forced to turn spy for the KGB.
From Russia With Drugs
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Author : David Walsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07
From Russia With Drugs written by David Walsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07 with categories.
It was the story that shocked the world: Russian athletics was revealed to be corrupt from top to bottom, with institutionalised doping used to help the nation's athletes win medals they did not truly deserve. But the full story of the couple who blew the whistle has never been told - until now. Vitaly Stepanov worked for the Russian anti-doping squad, committed to his job; Yuliya Rusanova was one of the country's most promising 800m athletes. When they met, he fell in love with her; she revealed she was taking performance-enhancing drugs. It could have been the end of their relationship, but instead they decided they would reveal the scale and the scope of the corruption in Russian athletics - the bribes, the drugs, the abuse. At enormous personal risk to their marriage and even their lives, they recorded and filmed athletes and officials involved in the scandal, and then escaped to Germany to pass on their devastating evidence. Now, with award-winning journalist David Walsh, the man who broke the Lance Armstrong story, they reveal the full truth of what went on in Russia, and the corrupt system that surrounded everything they did. But The Russian Affair is so much more than an unrivalled account of the biggest sporting scandal, it is a warm and human story of a couple fighting to tell the truth and to save their family at the same time, while facing seemingly insurmountable odds.
From Russia With Drugs
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Author : David Walsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-08
From Russia With Drugs written by David Walsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-08 with categories.
The extraordinary inside story of the couple who risked it all to reveal the scale of the doping and corruption in Russia, leading to one of the greatest sporting scandals of all time
Russian Affair The
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Author : Adrian D'Hage
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2018-07
Russian Affair The written by Adrian D'Hage and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07 with Fiction categories.
With a dangerous and unstable new US president in power, it's bad timing for the country's leading nuclear scientist to consider selling his research. Especially as there are plenty of eager buyers--Russia, Israel, and ISIS are all desperately developing their own nuclear warheads and the results could be devastating. It's up to CIA agent Curtis O'Connor to uncover ISIS' deadly plans, but can he stop them in time? And with a corrupt Russian scientist, a femme-fatale double agent and a very unpredictable US president waiting in the wings, it seems just a matter of time until a war begins.
The Russian Affair
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Author : Michael Collier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-06
The Russian Affair written by Michael Collier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with categories.
Spring 2005. In Russia, the President is halfway through his second and last official term, and speculation is growing as to his successor. Four Russian billionaires with a vested interest in the possible outcome are meeting on a golf course in Surrey, England. On the fourth tee, a bullet from an assassin's rifle smashes into the head of one of them, Andrei Lanskoy. So begins a man hunt to find those responsible.John Matteson, working as a commercial intelligence officer in Whitehall, is drawn into the search because of his department's knowledge of the Russians' business activities. However, he begins to look beyond that brief delving deeper into the murky world of professional contract killers, with some tragic consequences.In the Kremlin, General Shepilov has the task of protecting the Presidency and now needs to know who was behind the murder in England and why. He begins by preparing a list of Russians who would be able order the murder of such a powerful man as Lanskoy, and also calls on an American, now retired from the arms business and living in Switzerland, to help him track the assassin.The interests of Matteson and the American eventually converge and the action plays out in England, Europe, Russia, and Iran.
A Russian Affair
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Author : Anton Chekhov
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-08-02
A Russian Affair written by Anton Chekhov and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-02 with Fiction categories.
When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings – he cannot forget her ... Chekhov’s stories are of lost love, love at the wrong time and love that can never be. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...
The Rodchenkov Affair
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Author : Grigory Rodchenkov
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-07-30
The Rodchenkov Affair written by Grigory Rodchenkov and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with Sports & Recreation categories.
***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Involving a nearly undetectable steroid delivery system known as 'Duchesse cocktail', tampering and switching of urine samples, and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov. The Rodchenkov Affair tells the full, unadulterated story that was first glimpsed in Bryan Fogel's award-winning documentary and still continues to captivate and shock the world. Charting the author's childhood growing up under the Iron Curtain, his first encounter with doping as a 22-year-old student athlete at Moscow State University, and his subsequent career working for the Soviet Olympic Committee, this breathtakingly candid journey reveals a rigged system of flawed individuals, brazen deceit and impossible moral choices.
The Zhivago Affair
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Author : Peter Finn
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-06-19
The Zhivago Affair written by Peter Finn and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with History categories.
The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West. 1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: ‘This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.’ Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act. 1958. The life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal. With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world. A Spectator and Sunday Times Book of the Year