The brainfever bird
By: I. Allan Sealy.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Russians -- India -- Delhi -- Fiction.; Scientists -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Once a biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in 'that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams'. So he decides to take his lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. He goes to India - and then he is robbed." "It is in a helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful and different, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. For a few days an awkward romance blossoms between them. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed."--BOOK JACKET.