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Once Upon A
Crime
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was sudden,
quick and chaotic. Getting-rich-fast schemes, which
included a manipulative privatization of assets and
natural resources, spun out of control, leading to
unprecedented corruption and lawlessness. On a
fertile ground of overall permissiveness and
impunity, crime lords and oligarchs seemed to take
over the Russian economy and politics; nevertheless,
feeling unsafe in their own country, they began
moving capital overseas, preparing to seek asylum in
countries that were traditionally hostile to their
homeland. As Russian organized crime, now in
America, spun out of control, U.S. law enforcement
agencies had no choice but to fight back with the
formation of a special task force. Choosing intuition over procedure, Agent Knox
abandoned the force, convincing his superior that he
would rather act on his own plot and seek
non-traditional methods of bringing down the boss and recover the money.
Winning the mobsters over with a convincing act of
corruption and the ability to survive in live-or-die
situations, all while balancing on the edge of
breaking the law, seemed to work for Agent
Knox...until he met Sergei Volkov, the underboss.
Agent Knox’s investigation came to an abrupt end
with the conclusion of a hide-and-seek game involving Cuban intelligence.
Close to ending his life as a self-inflicting
punishment for his personal failure, the agent suddenly discovered that he had plenty of reasons to be excited about the
outcome of his so-called keen plot, even more so as
he opened a surprising, confidential and highly
amusing envelope from Moscow. |
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Published
on 03/25/2016 |
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FICTION / Mystery and Crime |
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