The Ice Curtain: A Novel

Description

It was just another murder. Another Mafia shooting on a dark Moscow street. But for Gregori Nowek, the new Siberian delegate, this killing was personal. To find out who ordered his best friend shot, Nowek must recover a vast cache of diamonds that vanished somewhere between Siberia's mines and Moscow's vaults. Plunged into a world of glittering gems and dangerous lies, Nowek races to find the diamonds before the world learns they're gone. His search will take him back to the place he knows best...Siberia. There, in a gem-filled chasm deep in the earth, are secrets guarded by the murderous greed of the diamond cartel and kept by a beautiful woman trapped behind her own curtain of ice. Caught in a staggering conspiracy, Nowek will risk his life to find the truth...and to bring an astounding act of deception into the light of day.

Robin White has been an oil-well roughneck, an oil-well-logging engineer, a science writer, a community energy planner, and an architect by vocation, an instrument-rated pilot by avocation. He has lived all over the United States and in Europe, including Russia and Siberia. He now lives near Monterey, California, with his wife.

"A true gem. Grade: A." --Rocky Mountain News "This bone-chilling thriller...keeps the reader on a razor-sharp edge." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)