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Maximilianov Malenkovsky asks Jake Gavronski, a third-generation Russian American, to accompany him to Russia and assist him in the purchase of properties there. Max's real objective is to obtain certain oil fields in the Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan. Since he is a rival of Vladimir Putin, he feels he must conceal his intentions and use Jake as a straw man.

Produktbeschreibung
Maximilianov Malenkovsky asks Jake Gavronski, a third-generation Russian American, to accompany him to Russia and assist him in the purchase of properties there. Max's real objective is to obtain certain oil fields in the Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan. Since he is a rival of Vladimir Putin, he feels he must conceal his intentions and use Jake as a straw man.
Autorenporträt
Ben Walker is also the author of Sentimental Music, a novel set in contemporary Florida, as well as several plays. Blood Relations, a black comedy of race, sex, and dashed dreams was a winner of the 1997 South Carolina Playwrights' Conference Competition in Beaufort, S.C. Return of the Native (2018) is the third in a trilogy set in the Deep South during events of the 19th Century. The first, Winds of the South, set in 1830's Georgia, was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Medal competition honoring literary works deemed to be 'thought-provoking' by the nominating committee. The second, entitled An Island in the South, was published in 2012 and takes place during Reconstruction. Mr. Walker is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, as well as San Francisco State University, where he received an M.A. degree in creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Jacksonville, Florida.