Russian stuff in fiction
Explore a curated list of fiction books featuring Russian themes, characters, and settings. Dive into captivating stories filled with Russian culture, history, and intrigue.


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Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, …

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Polar Star
by Martin Cruz Smith
Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. …

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Red Square
by Martin Cruz Smith
"Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Back from exile, Arkady Reko …


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A Matter of Honor
by Jeffrey Archer
Featuring a bonus interview with the authorAdisgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. The moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, …

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Triple
by Ken Follett
A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of Edge of Eternity and Eye of the Needle. As Egypt …

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The Man from St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett
A Russian emissary sent to England to negotiate a Soviet-British alliance is stalked by a deadly anarchist.

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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy
As the Star Wars race between the Soviet Union and United States continues to escalate, Colonel Mikkail Filtov, America's agent in the Kremlin, is about …

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Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy
From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A …

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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear …

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Icon
by Frederick Forsyth
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as …

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Dead Meat
by Philip Kerr
EVERYONE IS GUILTY OF SOMETHING... In comtemporary Russia the old ghosts have been laid to rest, but the stench of corruption is just as strong …


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War of the Rats
by David L. Robbins
For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history …

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Archangel
by Robert Harris
Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, …

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The Russia House
by John Le Carré
John le Carre 's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned …

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The White Russian
by Tom Bradby
January 1917--With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city's chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned …

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The Tristan Betrayal
by Robert Ludlum
In the bestselling tradition of "The Scarlatti Inheritance" and "The Rheineman Exchange," comes a compelling thriller in which one man's actions can change the course …
