Chelyabinsk: Where the Salamanders Glow Crawdads Do Not Sing (Black Russian, #1)

by John Pansini

Overview

The Secret city of Chelyabinsk is the most radioactive city on earth. Here the Soviet Union manufactures its nuclear weapons. Here salamanders glow.

After graduating first in his class from GRU's Military-Diplomatic Academy, GRU officer Mikhail Khalatsyn is sent to Chelyabinsk to investigate a charge of treason against a Russian scientist. Mikhail finds this first assignment both distasteful and humiliating. Both he and the scientist are Afro-Russians. Mikhail's father left America's Jim Crow South in 1933 and immigrated to the Soviet Union.

Is the scientist truly a traitor or just another black man being set up to take the fall?

It's up to Mikhail find out.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165334399
Publisher:	John Pansini
Publication date:	10/28/2021
Series:	Black Russian
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	544 KB

About the Author

                

                    
• John compares himself to Mark Twain & Ernest Hemingway. Some people call him delusional. He calls himself confident.

                    
• John says he’s "a model railroad hobbyist." In other words, he likes to play with toy trains.

                    
• John keeps a 20 gallon commune of tropical fish. The fish are happy; they co-exist peacefully; they’re healthy & well-fed. John & the fish prefer live plants.
                      Unlike the ocean, no plastic is allowed in their water!

                    
• John likes to cook. It’s a means to an end. He really, really, really loves to eat!

                    
• Despite a B.S. from City College of New York & a Master’s Degree in Library & Information Science from St. John’s University,
                      to feed himself & his cats, John bangs nails for a living. Like the great John Henry, another steel driving man, John Pansini will be buried with his hammer in his hands.

                    
• John loves all animals, great or small; especially cats; especially his cats: Spooky (female 17), Cloud (male 12) and Alvin (a little orange terror, 6).

                    
• John is still single. No woman he ever wanted ever wanted him.