By John McPhee
Within the 1960's and 1970's, American professor Norton stay clear of forayed on his personal within the Soviet Union, acquired the paintings of underground "unofficial" artists, and taken it out himself or prepared to have it shipped illegally to the USA. John McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine actions within the provider of dissident Soviet paintings, his factors for his paintings, and the fates of numerous of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian artwork is a suspenseful, chilling, and engaging file on a covert operation like no different.
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