Red Square & Gypsy in Amber - Martin Cruz Smith-Omnibus

Red Square Sometimes Arkady had the feeling that while he had been away God had lifted Moscow and turned it upside down ...The night outside was still white. Arkady wasn't sleepy or hungry. He felt like the perfect new Soviet man, designed for a land with no food or drink. He got up and left the office. Enough. It began with the unmourned death of Rosen, one of Moscow's new breed of black marketeers; seemingly a clear-cut case of murder. Although Renko has been recently reinstated at the Moscow Prosecutor's office, the case begins to slip from his grasp. But his determination never to let go leads him to Munich and Berlin -- back into the life of Irina, a woman he though he had lost forever ... Gypsy in Amber: Sorcery and the dark sciences are a the heart of a hideous murder that threatens to force the police into a confrontation with New York's gypsy community. A dead driver and a mutilated corpse in a car crash on George Washington Bridge. The cops were determined to pin the rap on a gypsy. But Roman Grey knew there was more than the convenient closing of a crime file involved. Whatever the price, it was the truly guilty whom he would bring to justice...