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The 25th Hour
KaMeRu Verlag
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ranslated from the original German, Die 25.
Stunde, the much-anticipated English version
of this book finally emerges onto the literary
scene as The 25th Hour .
Written by Katarina Madovčik and Ruben M.
Mullis, the original was published in 1999 by the
two authors who founded KaMeRu Verlag (publishing house) solely with a view to bringing this thrilling œuvre to realisation. The English translation was
completed in 2001 but the story has since then sat
and matured until becoming available in both print
and electronic formats in January 2015.
This pulsating detective novel takes place in the
newly-unfolding Russia of the late 1990s, when many
somewhat unsavoury entrepreneurs were out to make
their mark on the new economy. The atmosphere, the
‘ambience’ painted by the authors, thoroughly saturates the reader with a colourful view of Moscow and
the lives of those newly acquainted with capitalism.
The authors introduce Inspector Nikita Morosov
of the Moscow police force to a stream of religious
murders perpetrated by one who follows the voice of
an angel. This is not a spoiler, so much is apparent as
one climbs into the first few pages.
Intertwined within this fast-paced and surprisingly
dramatic storyline is Inspector Morosov’s relationship
with police pathologist Yekaterina Lenskaya, as well
as Morosov suffering the pressure of a KBG colonel
breathing down his neck, a retired decorated war hero
trying to create another fog to cover his own plans and an
intriguing web of cunning and deceit swirling around
the shadowy halls of a monestary.
Add to this a ferry boat crossing the Barents Sea
loaded with a very special cargo, a crew of some very
suspicious characters, some surprisingly innocent
passengers and a dangerous storm on their horizon,
and The 25th Hour delivers a story full of plot twists
and turns and fast-paced, high-energy pursuits with
an almost guide-book quality, street-by-street overview of Moscow.
Few first-time authors achieve such a sense of reader inclusion in a story as the KaMeRu couple have
with The 25th Hour. This publication illustrates the
apodictic storytelling mastery of the authors and
provides the reader with a remarkable journey in
which to bury themselves for the duration.
A highly-recommended read, The 25th Hour
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surprises and entertains from cover to cover.
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Amidst all of this is an old-school Muscovite Inspector racing against time to uncover
a dark secret.
Even in the dawn of a new Russia, the pursuit of the truth can be a dangerous affair –
it can become a matter of life and death ...
The 25th Hour is a thrilling detective mystery written in a clear, captivating language
and a remarkably solid style. The suspense seduces the reader to the very last
sentence.
for literature, especially for crime novels,
brought Katarina Madovčik (studies of
German language and literature and
pyschology) and Ruben M. Mullis (studies
The 25th Hour
Their interest in Russia and their passion
Madovčik / Mullis
The daughter of a retired general of the Red Army is found murdered. This seemingly
unrelated event is somehow connected to a passenger ferry leaving for Murmansk, the
hold of which was loaded under the cover of darkness.
Katarina
Madovčik
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Ruben M.
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of Slavic languages and literature and
Eastern European history) together.
In their first crime novel “The 25th Hour“
they created the personable character
of Muscovite Chief Inspector Nikita
Andreyevich Morosov, a lonely fighter
The original Morosov mystery
now in English!
and headstrong hero who solves his
cases in the new Russia.
The writers have been living and working
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