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Cover of “A Diamond for the Thieves' Crown”

Book 1 of the “Stalin's Diamonds” series

A Diamond for the Thieves' Crown

The thief Zhora Gunkov can smell big loot a mile away, which is why his nickname is Fartovy (the Lucky One).

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2006
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
270
ISBN:
5-699-15383-7
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
A Diamond for the Thieves' CrownExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

The thief Zhora Gunkov can smell big loot a mile away, which is why his nickname is Fartovy (the Lucky One). Never mind that the loot sits in a sealed container guarded by NKVD and SMERSH officers, never mind that Fartovy himself is serving time at a camp through which the secret cargo passes in transit. The camp must be “unfrozen” and the “chest” seized in the turmoil. No sooner said than done, only the container went not to the thief but to a former state security lieutenant colonel, now the penal-battalion private Kupriyanov. Stalin and Beria know about this container, Fartovy knows, SMERSH Major Korobov knows… They know, and they wait. For hundreds of first-class diamonds do not vanish without a trace…

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A Diamond for the Thieves' Crown