description: The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . .A ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscow's streets . . .High above the gray city, a sniper is taking aim at police officers, and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . ."Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers."Washington Post Book World
language: English
title: Red Chameleon
titlecomplete: Red Chameleon
characters: Porfiry Rostnikov
genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Russia, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 464
series: Porfiry Rostnikov
publisher: Charter Book