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The Button Man

by Brian Freemantle · 1992

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When the promiscuous niece of an American senator is brutally murdered in Russia, the investigation is stalled by politics and Moscow's archaic investigative process—leaving the killer free to strike again. A gripping combination of Silence of the Lambs and Gorky Park.

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mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisMoscowMoscowMore like thisLess of thisRussiaRussiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

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