The unpossessed city [a novel]
(Book on CD)

Unabridged

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Read by John Farrage

Jim Vilatzer was going nowhere -- working and living at home -- until he ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewhere far away -- fast. He cadges a job in Moscow finding and interviewing survivors of the Gulag. His taste for gambling is satisfied merely by living in a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely accepts a big win when a chance meeting leads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a camp survivor. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with four other survivors, learning harrowing and fascinating things about bygone atrocities. But his apparent success has earned him the attention of Russia's Interior Ministry and the CIA. Jim has become an unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and their deadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highest bidder. Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again, this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum-mobster is preparing to peddle the world's most dangerous technologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first