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  • A Plague on Both Your Houses

  • A Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia
  • By: Robert Littell
  • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
  • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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A Plague on Both Your Houses

By: Robert Littell
Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
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A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

Into the vacuum—before a new democracy had time to put down roots—surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or “roof”—protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting across the country. Rivalries turned bloody as Moscow’s Jewish mafia battled the Ossete vory v zakone (literally “thieves-in-law”) for control of the city. Caught up in the mayhem, Yulia, only daughter of the Jewish mafia godfather, and Roman, only son of the Ossete mafia godfather, are obliged to navigate the minefield of a star-crossed love affair as they attempt to escape a destiny that appears preordained.

A Plague on Both Your Houses is the fictional story of one bloody episode in Moscow’s Great Turf War, when clans fought brutally in the streets and the future of the Russian nation was anything but assured.

©2024 Robert Littell (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing
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Not Littell’s Best

A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story set against two Russian Mafia style families. Not enough character development to make it really engaging. And way way too much unnecessary crude language. Read one of his Sisters novels instead of this one.

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