In a moment of drunken sentiment, Tanner had made an absurd promise to a friend - sure he'd smuggle himself into the Soviet Union, find his friend's long lost love and then smuggle them both back to the U.S....but the long-lost love - she had a sister. And the sister - she had these ten girlfriends, the sexiest Olympic team the Russians had ever sent to the Games.......but how do you smuggle all these people out of Russia? You don't - unless you create a little diversion, like suddenly spinning the world towards the brink of international war....
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"...Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today..." - The Guardian
"...For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good..." - Martin Cruz Smith,
"...A master of crime fiction..." - Jonathan Kellerman,