Vodka Horror Book Review

  After twenty-five years, Gorky Park finally has a worthy successor in Boris   Starling’s Vodka—a dazzling, epic thriller set in post-Communist Russia that is   filled with crime and corruption, love and death, and the tragic pull between good and   evil that nearly brings a once-proud empire to its knees.   

  It is December of 1991, and the Soviet Union has just collapsed. Muscovites are used to   lines and empty shelves, but now they have to cope with a dangerous power vacuum—  and a war between brutal mafia gangs for control of the city. Alice Liddell, an American   banker, has come to Moscow to oversee the privatization of Russia’s most famous vodka   distillery—the Red October. Faced with the charismatic, ruthless Lev—distillery director   and head of one of the warring mafia gangs—Alice’s very difficult job is starting to look   impossible. Lev’s archenemy has vowed revenge on him, and a series of bizarre child   killings is only adding to the complications—and the terror—of this dangerously volatile   time.