The Dissident: A Novel

“A feast for serious fiction readers.” —Wendy Smith, The Washington Post

“A dead-serious, dead-funny, no-he-didn't marvel.” —Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus

A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow.

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 governme...