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Hard currency
Rostnikov has been sent to Havana to question a Russian citizen accused of kiling his lover. Soon the cast includes African holy men, urban revolutionaries, and Fidel Castro, and the case begins to assume surprising value in the hard currency of international power.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132098
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205805
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1102429
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010109418
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- "Rostnikov has been sent to Havana to question a Russian citizen accused of kiling his lover. Soon the cast includes African holy men, urban revolutionaries, and Fidel Castro, and the case begins to assume surprising value in the hard currency of international power."@en
- "In "Hard currency", the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the fall of Lenin's statue have not changed the harsh realities of Russian life overnight. Food lines still snake through the barren streets, political power struggles are still waged in the upper echelons of the bureaucracy. And for embattled police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his comrades, the thaw in the Cold War means only that they must tread carefully on treacherously thin ice. Rostnikov's superiors dispatch him to the U.S.S.R.'s one-time ally, Cuba, on a criminal investigation-cum-diplomatic mission. A former Russian advisor stands accused-and all but convicted-of the murder of a female citizen. With dedicated junior detective Elena Timofeyeva in tow, and a watchful KGB agent on his tail, Rostnikov must grapple with his cunning Cuban counterpart, as well as a perplexing murder scenario, to save face for his mother country."@en