The Dissident av Paul Goldberg

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<p><b>¿A feast for serious fiction readers.¿ ¿Wendy Smith, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>¿A dead-serious, dead-funny, no-he-didn''t marvel.¿ </b><b>¿</b><b>Joshua Cohen, author of <i>The Netanyahus</i></b><br><b><br>A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow.<br><br></b>On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a U.S. official, have been axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for Israel; he sits ¿in refusal¿ alongside his wife and their group of intellectuals, Jewish and not. But the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street, he¿s given a choice: find the murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later, when Henry Kissinger will be arriving in Moscow. Unsolved ax murders, it seems, aren¿t good for politi