The Forbidden Zone Hardcover - 1999
by Hetzer, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
An American woman scientist makes a desperate attempt to save a Soviet astrophysicist from his own personal hell with a revelation that threatens his career, his politics, and his life.
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Details
- Title The Forbidden Zone
- Author Hetzer, Michael
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Books, New York
- Date 1999
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 032401
- ISBN 9780684854083 / 0684854082
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.45 x 1.21 in (24.13 x 16.38 x 3.07 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Political fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-37107
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the jacket flap
In the waning days of the Cold War, Victor Perov, a brilliant Soviet scientist, agrees to a joint Soviet-American astrophysics project. Victor's faith in Communism and the Party is unwavering, but his impassioned scientific alliance with Katherine Sears, an American astrophysicist, quickly becomes romantic.
When Katherine learns that Victor's twin brother, Anton, a dissident believed killed in action in Afghanistan, is actually imprisoned somewhere in the Soviet psychiatric gulag, she risks her life to inform Victor. With the KGB hot on her trail and the American Embassy in Moscow powerless, Katherine must flee into the Soviet countryside, and Victor is left to grapple with a truth that pits him against his own mother, a high-ranking Soviet minister known as the Iron Perova.
Everywhere Victor turns, he is met with icy communist silence -- and anyone willing to talk seems to be turning up dead. The further he searches, the deeper he must dig into a painful period of Mother Russia's history. His career, his family and his life at risk, Victor must learn whom to trust in this deadly game of Party politics in order to save the woman he loves and his twin brother.
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/1998, Page 653
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/1998, Page 1553
- Library Journal, 01/01/1999, Page 150
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 10/15/1998, Page 54
- Publishers Weekly, 11/16/1998, Page 52
