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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled A Darker Place about Kurbsky, Dillon, Russian with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense? End with the sentence ' All rights reserved.'.
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conversations.value: When world-famous Russian novelist Alexander Kurbsky decides to leave for the West in bestseller the authors suspenseful 16th thriller to feature former IRA man Sean Dillon (after <I>Rough Justice</I>), Kurbsky turns for help to Dillon and other members of the British prime ministers private army. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin persuades Kurbsky to infiltrate this elite group and spy for Russia by showing him current photos of his sister, Tania, who the celebrated author thought died years earlier in a student riot. Tanias release from a life sentence in prison is the price for Kurbskys cooperation. Dillon and the others, most notably Lady Monica Sterling, Dillons girlfriend, welcome Kurbsky into their circle in England, where the Russian begins to go about his deadly business. Several long flashbacks explore past events to good effect. The final dustup is a little rushed, but the crisp writing shows the author to be on top of his game. <I>(Feb.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled A Darker Place about Holmes, Laurie, Grave with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: Laurie the author's 1993 debut novel, <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553573993/${0}">A Grave Talent</a> , won American and British honors for Best First Crime Novel, and it quickly established a loyal following for her series featuring San Francisco detectives Kate Martinelli and Alonzo Hawkins. She followed up that early success with a clever expansion of the Sherlock Holmes mythos, <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553571656/${0}">The Beekeeper's Apprentice</a>. That novel, and the three that succeeded it, partnered Holmes with Mary Russell--a woman very much Holmes's equal in spirit and mind despite her young age. A Darker Place is the author's first book to break from these series as she continues to pioneer new territory between literary and thriller fiction.
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conversations.value: A Darker Place is the author's first book to break from these series as she continues to pioneer new territory between literary and thriller fiction. She followed up that early success with a clever expansion of the Sherlock Holmes mythos, <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553571656/${0}">The Beekeeper's Apprentice</a>. That novel, and the three that succeeded it, partnered Holmes with Mary Russell--a woman very much Holmes's equal in spirit and mind despite her young age.Laurie the author's 1993 debut novel, <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553573993/${0}">A Grave Talent</a> , won American and British honors for Best First Crime Novel, and it quickly established a loyal following for her series featuring San Francisco detectives Kate Martinelli and Alonzo Hawkins.