Brent Ghelfi Books

Suspense fiction. Two men are massacred in an expensive Moscow bar. But the bullets miss their target: Alexei Volkovoy - Volk for short. He's a deadly, battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic mafia kingpin; and a military man known only as the General. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty and the most dangerous weapon in Volk's arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a long-lost masterpiece from St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. Volk must choose which powerful man he will betray in order to escape with the painting and with his life. Volk's Game announces Alexi Volkovoy as the boldest, most unforgettable hero of a new generation.

Russian agent and criminal Alexei Volkovoy pays an action-packed visit to the U.S. to uncover secrets of the infamous Venona cables and to attempt to clear his family name The past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy, known as Volk, at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and take him to a murder scene. At first, the dead man appears to be just one more victim of Moscow’s out-of-control violence. But Volk soon discovers that he is a famous Hollywood filmmaker whose reputation was destroyed in 1995 when the CIA released decrypted documents from the Venona cables—the top-secret American and British crypto-analysis of Soviet messages that implicated the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Kim Philby, and hundreds of other Soviet spies. Tucked inside the American’s pocket is a marked-up Venona intercept that refers to a Russian used as a spy by the Americans, a man who may have been Volk’s illustrious father.Aided by his female partner, Valya, Volk’s only hope to clear his family name will be to solve this murder and discover how the Venona papers relate to his father’s disappearance, while powerful forces want to keep him from investigating the past and to remove him from the present.

Was ist härter als die Moskauer Unterwelt? Ein authentischer, hochaktueller Thriller, der Putins Russland von seiner dunkelsten Seite zeigt. Alexej „Volk“ Volkow verlässt die Moskauer Unterwelt: Sein Auftraggeber, der „General“, schickt ihn auf eine Mission nach Tschetschenien, wo er einst im Krieg gefangen genommen und gefoltert wurde. Tschetschenische Separatisten sind im Besitz eines Videos, das ein von Russen verübtes Massaker zeigt. Nun üben sie blutige Rache an den Verantwortlichen. Volk muss intervenieren und trifft dabei auf seinen ehemaligen Peiniger Abreg.

Když v moskevské centrále ropné společnosti vybuchne bomba a zaměstnanci jsou zadrženi jako rukojmí, zavládne všeobecné přesvědčení, že čin mají na svědomí čečenští separatisté. Plukovník Alexej Volkov, přezdívaný Volk dostane jednoznačný rozkaz: neváhat, nevyjednávat, střílet.