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  • The Man Who Walked Like a Bear

  • Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries Series, Book 6
  • By: Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Narrated by: John McLain
  • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

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The Man Who Walked Like a Bear

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Narrated by: John McLain
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Publisher's Summary

This "superb mystery-thriller" featuring a Moscow cop reminiscent of Arkady Renko delivers "riveting suspense" (Publishers Weekly).

Porfiry Rostnikov and his wife, Sarah, have been in love for decades, since the end of World War II. Now the police inspector is by his wife's bedside as she recuperates from a brain operation, when a massive naked man staggers into her hospital room, scared out of his mind, and tries to jump out the window. Rostnikov restrains the bearlike man, trying to calm him. As orderlies arrive to return the escapee to the mental ward, he cries out: "The devil came to devour the factory."

Rostnikov has far more important things on his mind than deciphering the ravings of a lunatic, first among them Sarah's recovery. And, of course, crime has not stopped while he cares for his wife. Rebels are planting bombs, teenagers are plotting assassinations, and the KGB lurks in every shadow. But despite all these clamors, the man's strange words continue to haunt Rostnikov - and compel him to investigate.

©1990 Stuart M. Kaminsky (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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