Special Assignments: Erast Fandorin 5
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Special Assignments: Erast Fandorin 5
By (Author) Boris Akunin
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1st March 2008
10th January 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
891.735
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 200mm, Height 131mm, Spine 22mm
230g
Description
Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886. The other is a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who strikes terror into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889 - and who may have more in common with London's own Jack the Ripper than simply a taste for women of easy virtue.
Reviews
"Pure escapist fun that has, in Russia, outsold Harry Potter" London Review of Books
Author Bio
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over ten million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.
