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Summary
The third Artie Cohen novel. As New York basks in the finest Indian summer of the century, Cohen, quitting his contented new life as a low-risk private investigator, finds himself in London, where the plot uncoils with a series of murders and a heartbreaking encounter with his long-time girlfriend.
Author Notes
Reggie Nadelson is an American journalist, travel writer and documentary film-maker who divides her time between London and New York. She is the author of the critically acclaimed thrillers featuring Artie Cohen, Moscow-born New Yorker and the first great post-Cold War cop. The series began with Red Mercury Blues and continued with Hot Poppies, Bloody London and Sex Dolls. Reggie Nadelson's new novel - Somebody Else - is published in 2003.
Reviews 2
Publisher's Weekly Review
Red Mercury Blues and Hot Poppies, Nadelson's first two books about Russian-born New York cop Artie Cohen were colorful but basically conventional mysteries. In her third book, the author makes a major leap forward in scope and depth. The novel--a harrowing take on the sickness that seeped out of Russia following the collapse of communism and infected New York and London--offers a frightening, apocalyptic vision of two cities drowning in success. Characters we've met before have grown and changed: Artie, still carrying several loads of immigrant baggage from his journey to Moscow to Israel to New York, is no longer a cop but a PI, doing special jobs for a much-subdued Sonny Lippert, his mentor, who's a federal prosecutor. Artie's lover, Lily Haines, now the mother of an adopted Chinese baby girl, is worried that Artie's current case--looking into a Russian connection to the murder of a wealthy and powerful Englishman who ruled his exclusive Sutton Place co-op with a ruthless hand--might stir up some old secrets of her own, especially about her ex-husband, who has a found a way to profit from the homeless. And Tolya Sverdloff, Cohen's charming and conniving friend from the streets of Moscow and Brighton Beach, is now a high-flying player in some brutal financial games, worried enough to have a secret steel-walled safe room carved into his apartment. The scenes set in New York City are taut and sharply etched, but the novel really takes off--into Nathaniel West country--when Artie follows Lily to a London ready to burst from catastrophic rains and the accumulated poisons of decades of official greed and neglect. This is a powerful portrait of cities, and people, wobbling on the edge. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Our man on the international crime beat, Russian immigrant and former NYPD cop Artie Cohen, winds up in London this time out, following earlier adventures in Moscow and Hong Kong. It starts with the murder of the manager of a chic Manhattan co-op, but the trail soon leads across the pond, where the Russian Mafia is taking over the London real-estate market. In its third episode, this series seems to be drifting from Russian noir to a kind of surrealistic, almost-cartoonish melding of hard-boiled style and James Bondish content. Armageddon is never far away in Nadelson's world--this time it's signaled by a Noah-caliber rainstorm, helped along by a terrorist plan to flood the Thames--but Artie, unlike Bond, is equipped only with the classic gumshoe's bulldog determination. There is too much plot here, and too wild a mixing of styles, for the novel to really hold together, but it breaks apart flamboyantly. If Nadelson ever gets the proportions right, her garbage-salad style could produce a very special crime novel. --Bill Ott
