Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.

Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...

After samples of a rare disease are stolen from an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense, Covert-One operative Lt. Col. Jon Smith, is dispatched to Prague. The disease is the perfect assassination tool--a bioweapon that, using each target's DNA, is undetectable, unstoppable, and incurable.

"Incomparable storyteller Danielle Steel illuminates rarely glimpsed precincts of unimaginable wealth and power, where love and freedom are the most dangerous desires of all. Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her...

Major Sean Drummond,a brazen JAG attorney, is back in the most important case of his career. This time it starts on home turf in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sean is called upon, begged actually, to defend Brigadier General William T. Morrison in the biggest treason case in United States history. Up against the fiercest prosecutor in the Army, Drummond may be in way over his head. Yet Morrison and his CIA executive wife, Mary, won't consider anyone...

In 1947, Rafael Mallo, a Francoist prison inmate, is agonizing waiting to be shot. He has spent seven years locked up. Surprisingly, he is released and reunited with a former lover, Sarah Vandor and resumes a stormy relationship. A political thriller.

The author relates how he and his Moscow family rescued Martha, a crow with a broken wing, and how she joined their household.

In the title novella, the rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from 1946 Moscow to a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a haunting influence on three characters.

"The Rogue Warrior has come to Moscow with murder and mayhem on his mind. The reason: his old friend Paul Mahon, Washington's defense attache in Russia, has been assassinated. Marcinko knows who killed him - Andrei Yudin, a godfather in the Russian Mafia - and he wants to know why. But Yudin's not talking. In fact, he's been silenced forever. The Rogue Warrior can't raise the dead, but he can uncover a cabal of Russian politicians in bed with the...