Red Square

When police investigators probing the supposed suicide of a deputy minister uncover evidence of massive corruption, they suddenly find themselves well out of their depth as the Kremlin elite decides to strike back to erase all evidence of its skulduggery. The authors, both of whom were born in the Soviet Union and know it inside out, use a real incident to build up a gripping picture of quite how dissolute Moscow was in the 1980s. Anyone who enjoyed Gorky Park should buy this book, which is much better