books by Edward Topol

books by Edward Topol

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Edward Topol

Edward Topol

Signet, 1988

Excellent thriller set in Soviet-era Arctic
Topol, who co-authored the superb Red Square, shows he is no slouch on his own with this intriguing thriller set in the days running up to the December 1984 opening of a pipeline destined to pump gas from the Soviet Arctic to Western Europe. A series of nasty murders ...

Red Square

Edward Topol, Fridrikh Neznansky

Quartet Books (UK), 1983

Forget Gorky Park -- this is infinitely better
When police investigators probing the supposed suicide of a deputy minister uncover evidence of massive corruption, they suddenly find themselves well out of their depth as the Kremlin elite decides to strike back to erase all evidence of its skulduggery. The authors, ...

Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used

Edward Topol

Plume, 1997

Morbid curiosity....
Somewhat reluctant to buy this book, I let my curiosity get the best of me and am I ever glad! I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my sofa. Will these words ever be used? Maybe not by me, but at least I will know what the taxi driver is grumbling under his breath ...

Submarine U-137

Edward Topol

Quartet Books, 1984

CIA and KGB's failure brought about by a russian immigrant.
An elegant description of the defeat suffered both by the KGB and the CIA brought about by a Russian immigrant. A Russian immigrant sent to Soviet Union to trade places with Soviet member of the General Staff. Everyhting goes worng, but the immigrant goes trhough ...

Deadly Games

Fridrikh Neznansky, Edward Topol

Quartet Books, 1984

Another excellent Soviet thriller from Red Square duo
Neznansky and Topol, fresh from the triumph of Red Square, produce another cracking Soviet-era thriller set in 1979, the height of the Brezhnevite stagnation. A small team of police investigators probing the disappearance of a journalist stumble across evidence of a ...