"Red in tooth and claw. Ferociously brilliant." - Cosmo Russia   "A dark, hilarious satire." - Moscow Truth.   "I laughed so hard I vomited half liter of blood and alcohol." - Mikhas, Pakhan of the Solntsevskaya Bratva.   Every adventure starts as a fool's journey, and if you're lucky it ends with the aeon, but that's just the Tarot talking. No one really believes this mystical hocus-pocus nonsense, no more than they believe in divinity or fate.   But what if you've seen Death running wild with the Devil? What if the Devil promised you the Moon? And when you accepted, the Devil drew Death into a dance with the shadows, spooks, and assassins of Russia's political underworld? What then?   Well then, you pray the fates are on your side and the deck stacked in your favor.   Red Russia is the story of two Americans in Russia, of business, lies, and deception, of fortunes bought and told.. "Play your cards right they say, but in Red Russia the deck is stacked in the mob's favor and the dealer is a spy. An American businessman and his interpreter play a hand they know was dealt from the bottom, but the translator has 78 cards up her sleeve the likes of which few have seen. Red Russia is a high-stakes gamble in comedy that pays off in spades." - Beijing Times "Red in tooth and claw. Ferociously brilliant." - Cosmo Russia "Does one laugh more at the Americans? Or the Russians? Finally a book that has us laughing at both." - Trud (Труд) "A dark, hilarious satire." - Moscow Truth (Московская правда) "In Assuming Names, Thompson claimed to be a genius. Red Russia proves it." - World Journal "I laughed so hard I vomited half liter of blood and alcohol." - Mikhas, Pakhan of the Solntsevskaya Bratva.