num_pages: 353
description: From premier spy novelist John le Carre, a magnificent thriller, a love story and an ethical puzzle for our time.We are in the third year of perestroika and glasnost.  The place is Moscow.  The man is Barley; a derelict, English publisher with a passion for jazz and a penchant for booze, who visits the Moscow Book Fair.The woman is Katya: a beautiful Russian with a mission to mankind and access to some of the hottest defense intelligence to come out of the Soviet Union in years.  It source: a disillusioned and desperate Russian physicist who wants Barley to publish the secrets . . but the British Secret Service and the CIA have other ideas.
language: English
title: The Russia House
titlecomplete: The Russia House
characters: Katya Orlova, Yakov Savelyev, Barley Scott Blair, Harry Palfrey, Clive (The Russia House), Ned (The Russia House), Wicklow
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Spy Thriller, Espionage, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Russia, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 24565
places: St. Petersburg, Portugal, London, England, Lisbon, Moscow, Leningrad, USSR, Russia, Eastern Europe
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, Inc.