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Name: Ambassador of the dead
Author: Askold Melnyczuk

📘 Ambassador of the dead by Askold Melnyczuk

"One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, is home in bed when he receives a phone call from Adriana Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. The beautiful Adriana, who once vacationed at her family's luxurious summer home on the Black Sea, now lives in a run-down apartment in New Jersey. Abandoned by her husband and estranged from her sons, she summons Nick back to his old neighborhood, where something unspeakable has happened - exactly what, no one is willing to say."--BOOK JACKET.

First publish date: 2001

Authors: Askold Melnyczuk

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