Soviet Union Fiction

It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as...

The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity 10 years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. But, what will the frustrated senator do to compel cooperation from Blackford Oakes?

Danny Jabo returns to sea, this time as second-in-command of a Trident submarine, the USS Maine. An international arms treaty makes the crew prepare for a once unthinkable level of cooperation with the Soviets, but the Maine's real enemy is an adversary no one saw coming.

The Serial Killer Angel of Death is leaving a trail of death across the country as Dean settles into life at the ranch with his adopted family. Dean and Mariska are at odds with each other. Dean does not like her career choice of working with the FBI. When she comes to Dean for help on a case, he is forced to get involved in the case with her. Dean realizes that the Serial Killer is targeting him with a finishing. Will Dean embrace the fact that the only person that can defeat the serial killer is Dean's altar ego "The Chemist"?