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...national security and gets a helping hand from Dashiell Hammett on a spree. The volume is one of the sprightliest in the series built around Peters but is overshadowed by A Cold Red Sunrise (Scribner's; 210 pages; $15.95), which features Kaminsky's other recurring detective, Soviet policeman Porfiry Rostnikov. That sly and assiduous investigator is dispatched to Siberia to look into the killing of another officer, who in turn was probing the killing of the daughter of a prominent dissident. Despite the smallness and privation of the village, Rostnikov unearths a wealth of believably evoked secrets...
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