No Time for Heroes
Brian Freemantle. St. Martin's Press, $6.99 (472pp) ISBN 978-0-312-95927-2
A top FBI man joins forces with his Moscow counterpart to investigate the Russian mob. (Dec.)
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Reviewed on: 12/02/1996
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