The Washington Post, June 30th, 1992
ROUGH BEAST By Anthony Olcott Scribners. 243 pp. $20 It's to far-off Kazakhstan on the eastern side of the Caspian Sea, the desert side, that the paranoid Ivan Duvakin is dispatched by the Russian minister of energy with orders to get rid of Momish, the man who can't get oil out of the ground. The time is early Yeltsin and the orders are given just hours after Duvakin discovers his doctor-wife murdered in their Moscow apartment, apparently done in by burglars who have made off with a JVC television set, a fur coat and some boots. Also missing is Anya, Duvakin's wild and uncontrollable teenage ...
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