The Siberian

By Igor Panich

A Russian-born American author reveals the inner-workings of life in Russia during it's first phase of transformation to capitalism... An international thriller where lives are worthless and money is everything."The Siberian" is the first book in a trilogy about the "New Russia". From 1985, the fall of the Soviet Union, to 2000 - the ascension of Vladimir Putin. From chaos and poverty to perhaps the richest oligarchs in modern history."Money is the only thing worth living or dying for, " is the motto of Katerina Sikorsky, a new generation Russian, desperate to leave the poverty and devastation of Siberia where she grew up. Katerina is beautiful, ambitious and with very few scruples. At nineteen, she married one of the most prominent godfathers of the Russian mafia, known as the "Owner". Nobody knows the Owner's real name: it was only ten years ago when he was still called Andrei Krylov, one of the brilliant minds of the Soviet Communist Party, raised in the West, a member of the "Golden Cage", the all-powerful think tank of the KGB.Taking advantage of the chaos born out of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Owner has built a financial empire; built it on blood and bones. Now, chased by the Mob, Interpol and the French police, he runs his business from a super yacht that never leaves international waters of the Mediterranean. James Maguire, a washed out thirty-two year old American investment banker, on the run from the FBI for his own criminal wrongdoings, ends up on the Cote d'Azur where his path crosses with this highly dangerous Russian couple. International money laundering, corruption and murder - an entire country switched to a mafia system, where only the lucky survive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792107927
• ISBN13: 9781792107924
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"