{"product_id":"untraceable-russian-pb-w2","title":"Sergei Lebedev: Untraceable [2021] paperback","description":"'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physical, moral and political.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter an unrelated Russian is murdered with Kalitin's poison, his cover is blown and he's drawn into the German investigation of the death. Two special forces killers with a lot of Chechen blood on their hands are sent to silence him - using his own undetectable poison. Their journey to their target is full of blunders, mishaps, holdups and accidents.\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Sergei Lebedev:\u003cp\u003e'One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia' \u003cb\u003eAnne Applebaum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Turn off your television sets and get reading. Sergei Lebedev writes not of the past, but of today' \u003cb\u003eSvetlana Alexievich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lebedev's books dealt with history - it lay like a shadow over everything he wrote - and the fact that its presence was so powerful suggested that the conflicts and tensions inherent in it were still unresolved, still had a bearing on Russian society in obscure yet palpable ways' \u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lebedev, Sergei \u0026 Bouis, Antonina W.","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42325030731961,"sku":"9781800246614","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lebedev-sergei-bouis-antonina-w-sergei-lebedev-untraceable-2021-paperback-9781800246614-58089647309139.jpg?v=1726653185","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/untraceable-russian-pb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}