Odessa Beach - Hardcover

Leuci, Bob

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ISBN 10: 0881910295 ISBN 13: 9780881910292

Publisher: Freundlich Books, 1985

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Russian-born New York City Police Detective Simon tries to solve a sudden outbreak of murder and drug trafficking after a Russian blackmarketeer arrives in New York fleeing from the K.G.B

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Synopsis:

A Russian and the American mob make strange bedfellows in a brilliantly plotted masterpiece of cross-cultural criminality. The book is set in Brighton (renamed Odessa) Beach, Brooklyn, where Nikolai Zoracoff has defected from Moscow -- not seeking political asylum but escape from the KGB. A charming hedonist and a criminal only because in Moscow luxury is bought by crime, Zoracoff's assimilation into America includes cowboy hats, Dolby stereo and a drug connection which, in New York, means an alliance with the Mafia -- and a game which is harder than Zoracoff can bear. The author is a former New York City undercover detective who draws upon his vast experience in law enforcement. He operated in a strange netherworld in which good guys play bad to catch the real criminals.

About the Author:

ROBERT LEUCI is a former New York policeman whose experiences as an under cover detective during the Knapp Investigation of the seventies were told in Robert Daley's bestselling book, Prince of the City, and the movie made from it. Leuci subsequently has written several books of his own including All the Centurions, Captain Butterfly and Odessa Beach. He lives in Rhode Island, near Providence.

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