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The Forbidden Zone Hardcover - 1999

by Michael Hetzer

An American woman scientist makes a desperate attempt to save a Soviet astrophysicist from his own personal hell with a revelation that threatens his career, his politics, and his life.

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The year is 1984. The place, the Soviet Union. A struggling country awaiting the cure of "perestroika." For too many Russians, this land has become the Forbidden Zone.

In the waning days of the Cold War, Victor Perov, a brilliant Soviet scientist, agrees to a joint Soviet-American astrophysics project. Victor's faith in Communism and the Party is unwavering, but his impassioned scientific alliance with Katherine Sears, an American astrophysicist, quickly becomes romantic.

When Katherine learns that Victor's twin brother, Anton, a dissident believed killed in action in Afghanistan, is actually imprisoned somewhere in the Soviet psychiatric gulag, she risks her life to inform Victor. With the KGB hot on her trail and the American Embassy in Moscow powerless, Katherine must flee into the Soviet countryside, and Victor is left to grapple with a truth that pits him against his own mother, a high-ranking Soviet minister known as the Iron Perova.

Everywhere Victor turns, he is met with icy communist silence -- and anyone willing to talk seems to be turning up dead. The further he searches, the deeper he must dig into a painful period of Mother Russia's history. His career, his family and his life at risk, Victor must learn whom to trust in this deadly game of Party politics in order to save the woman he loves and his twin brother.

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  • Title The Forbidden Zone
  • Author Michael Hetzer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 1999-02-11
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780684854083 / 0684854082
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.45 x 1.21 in (24.13 x 16.38 x 3.07 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-37107
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/1998, Page 653
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/1998, Page 1553
  • Library Journal, 01/01/1999, Page 150
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 10/15/1998, Page 54
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/16/1998, Page 52

About the author

Michael Hetzer was founding editor of The Moscow Times, the first-ever English-language daily newspaper in Russia. Between 1990 and 1995, he also founded The Moscow Guardian, a weekly newspaper in English, and the monthly magazine Vitrina, which he edited in Russian. While living in Russia, he served as editor of the English-language edition of the Russian newspaper Kommersant. In 1996 he left journalism to write novels full-time. He now lives with his wife and two children in Myrtle Beach, South Caroli

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