Two for the Devil

Allen Hoffman

Original title: Two for the devil

first published 1998 Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 2011

Small worlds

It is Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year and Day of Judgement - in Moscow during the Stalinist purges of 1936. In the Lubyanka secret police prison, senior investigator Grisha Shwartzman masterfully pursues the rigorous logic and obsessive legalism of the Soviet witch-hunt. Facing an extraordinary prisoner, Grisha realizes that the Soviet system he has faithfully served is murderously corrupt and that he himself wil...

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Two for the Devil edition · 2014 · Abbeville Press, Incorporated · 256 pages · 9781283261432
Two for the Devil edition · 2011 · Abbeville Press, Incorporated · 9780789260062
Two for the devil edition · 1998 · Abbeville Press · 254 pages

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