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Kalle Kniivilä rated Dressed up for a riot: 4 stars

Michael Idov: Dressed up for a riot (2018)
Dressed up for a riot by Michael Idov
"In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in …
Kalle Kniivilä rated Dark Matter: 3 stars

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is …
Kalle Kniivilä rated Fortress Russia: 4 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated En helt vanlig familj (Lundasviten, #1): 3 stars
Review of 'Den sovande spionen (Moskva Noir, #3)' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated Moskoviten: 4 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated Comrade J: 4 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated Бюро проверки: 4 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated Petrovy v grippe i vokrug nego: 4 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated Version Control: 4 stars

Version Control by Dexter Clarence Palmer
The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of …
Kalle Kniivilä rated Sleeping giants: 2 stars

Sleeping giants by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis files -- book one)
"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground …
Kalle Kniivilä rated The Vory: 4 stars

Mark Galeotti: The Vory (2018)
The Vory by Mark Galeotti
"The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the …
Kalle Kniivilä rated Forever Free: 2 stars
Kalle Kniivilä rated The Forever War (The Forever War, #1): 3 stars

The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman
Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, …