Anthony Olcott, écrivant sous le pseudonyme commun Toni Brill avec sa femme, est un auteur, éditeur et traducteur dont le travail couvre un large éventail de sujets. Sa production littéraire, y compris des romans nomminés à des prix et une étude primée sur la fiction policière russe, explore la relation complexe entre les messages, les données et l'information. Les recherches d'Olcott examinent de manière critique les défis posés par l'explosion médiatique à quiconque cherche à transformer des données brutes en renseignements exploitables. Son attention particulière à la transformation des données en compréhension éclairée est une caractéristique de son approche littéraire et analytique distinctive.
His first mistake was to discover the corpse. His second was to tell the KGB. — Duvakin is a security officer with two desperate problems. One is the naked dead American in room 852. The second is Colonel Polkovnikov of the KGB. When the KGB asked Duvakin's help, that should have been his warning. Dead Russians are one thing. Dead Americans quite another. Then, tempted by fortune and lured by power, Duvakin risks betraying his friends, his beloved Tanya, himself, and his country.
An old cleaning woman caught at Magadan airport with sacks containing priceless furs...A tragic airline "accident" that kills a woman with a devastating secret...A sudden flurrying shift in the Soviet hierarchy...Such are the sinister threads which intertwine to thrust Ivan Duvakin into the menacing glace of KGB suspicions. — Now Duvakin is running for his life, plunged into the vortex of a deadly conspiracy that reaches from the top levels of Party command. His only ally is Galya, a woman doctor whose sensual charms mask a ferocious heart --and who may or may not be his ultimate betrayer.