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KERR**, PHILIP: : DEAD MEAT

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS LTD.,1993.

ISBN 0701147032.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Published in the US under the title Grushko.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with red+white lettering,critics' reviews of author's last previously published title 'A Philosophical Investigation' to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges very lightly toned but clean: contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,generally clean - rear board with 3 spots/splashes,but still sharp- cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-243pp [paginated] includes 25 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,acknowledgements,an epigram and 2pp blanks at the rear. In the new St Petersburg everyone is driven: by hunger,by fear,by greed.The state shops are empty and among struggling private enterprise organised crime is flourishing.An investigator from Moscow is sent by the overstretched militia to learn more about the burgeoning Russian mafia.No one knows more about the subject than detective Yevgeni Ivanovich Grushko: determined and laconic,he pursues the mafia with a single-mindedness verging on obsession. A Molotov cocktail is thrown through the window of a fancy restaurant.Grushko is suspicious when he finds its cold room stacked high with prime cuts of meat. Mikhail Milyukin,a prominent investigative journalist,is found in a car left in a forest,a neat bullet wound in the back of his head.In the boot lies a Georgian gangster,his mouth shot to pieces in gruesome admonition.As Grushko investigates Milyukin's murder,a bloody and brutal war breaks out between the gangster factions,but this does not explain all the loose threads.Why had the Department tapped Milyukin's phone? Why had Milyukin tried to hire a bodyguard two days before his death? Why was a pimp,whom Milyukin had helped put in the zone, let out after serving only half his sentence,and why was Milyukin's widow holding out on them? As Grushko and the investigator unravel a tangled web of deviousness and brutality, they reveal a truth which is far more disturbing than anything they had imagined,and whose consequences threaten even Grushko's own family. 'Dead Meat',Philip Kerr's gripping and tense new thriller,gives a fascinating insight into the dark side of life in the new Russia. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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Kerr, Philip : DEAD MEAT

Chatto & Windus, London, 1993

ISBN 0701147032

First printing U. K. Hardcover is clean and intact, light bumping to corners, no markings. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, couple small tears, not price clipped. ; 8vo; 243 pages; Review: "Kerr's most recent novel, A Philosophical Investigation , takes place in England in the near future... Here he turns to modern-day Russia to trace an electrifying battle between the anemically funded Russian police and well-heeled ethnic Mafiosi who operate at will in post-Soviet St. Petersburg. An anonymous narrator--an Internal Affairs-type lawyer--monitors detective Yevgeni Ivanovich Grushko's efforts to nail mob thugs for the murder of an investigative journalist who had aired Mafia laundry and government scandal on TV.... In Kerr's literate dark novel, strains of romantic balalaika music blend with the sound of the sharp wind sweeping across the steppes. Readers will hope for more appearances of this new man from Moscow. ", Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

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