Ice Jacket Asphalt is the first novel in the Alexei series.

Wisconsin in winter. It almost reminds Veronika of home. Siberia before the wall came down.

All she wants is freedom. That and to find a place where no-one knows her past. She just wants to disappear. Not a lot to ask. Except for two very big problems, her ex-pimp and her drug dealer husband – a husband who has no inkling of her former life.

Discipline and a plan. The essential ingredients. The hallmarks of Alexei Tatarinov’s life. A life threatened by a partner stumbling on the brink of madness and a woman he will never let himself love.

Serial killer or merciless businessman – maybe both. John Olson doesn’t think about it too much. A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. A reasonable view of life he’d say – so long as he’s the one doing the killing.

Veronika is tough. She survived the Soviet Union and she will find a way out of this mess. One way or another. Whatever the cost. Whoever must die.

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