Friedrich Neznansky is a popular Russia

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n crime novelist. He is a lawyer

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 by education, practiced law in Moscow

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, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years; his hero in most of his books, Aleksandr Turetsky, reflects that experience. Turetsky is a flawed hero—he has a straying eye. However, he always catches the crooks. Although Neznansky’s crime novels are light fiction, the political and social currents of the day can be sensed in them, as well as everyday Russian realities. Several of his books have been televised.

English Translations

• Red Square (with Allan Topol), Berkley, 1984.
• Deadly Games (with Edward Topol), Berkley, 1985.
• The Body in Sokolniki Park, Bantam, 1987.
• Fair at Sokolniki, Corgi Books, 1987.
• Operation Faust, Corgi Books, 1988.
• Night Wolves, Infinity Publishing, 2004.

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