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Erast Fandorin 5
Boris Akunin author Andrew Bromfield translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:6th Jan '11
Should be back in stock very soon
The daring Russian sleuth Erast Fandorin takes on two cunning adversaries. From the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.
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.
Immensely readable ... the beguiling, super-brainy, sexy, unpredictable Fandorin is a creation like no other in crime fiction * The Times *
Extraordinarily readable, full of incident and excitement, swift-moving and told with a sparkling light-heartedness which is impossible to resist * Evening Standard *
Intricate, incredible, pleasurable * Literary Review *
Hugely entertaining, cunningly plotted detective novels ... clever, witty, wry page-turners to be commended to anyone with a taste for crime fiction * Daily Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780753823484
Dimensions: 131mm x 200mm x 22mm
Weight: 230g
336 pages