A Plague on Both Your Houses : : a Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia
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"On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceases to exist. Into the vacuum--before a new democracy has time to put down roots--surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or "roof"--protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting up across the country. Rivalries turned bloody as Moscow's Jewish mafia battled the Ossete vory v zakone (literally "thieves-in-law") for control of the city. Caught up in the mayhem, Yulia, only daughter of the Jewish mafia godfather, and Roman, only son of the Ossete mafia godfather, navigated the minefield of a star-crossed love affair as they attempt to escape a destiny that appears preordained. A Plague on Both Your Houses is the fictional story of one bloody episode in Moscow's Great Turf War, when clans fought brutally in the streets and the future of the Russian nation was anything but assured."--Inside front jacket flap.
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PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2024.
Year Published: 2024
Description: 219 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9798212227711
SUBJECTS
Mafia -- Russia -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.