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Evgeny Sukhov
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Book 6 of the “The Safecracker” series

Bait for a Sucker

They say that in Kazan's Lake Kaban the main treasures of the Kazan khan Yediger have lain untouched since the sixteenth century.

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2009
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
260
ISBN:
978-5-699-34440-6
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
Translated edition published as:
Thomas Hawthorn
Bait for a SuckerExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

They say that in Kazan's Lake Kaban the main treasures of the Kazan khan Yediger have lain untouched since the sixteenth century. Others tell that in the Civil War wandering bandits buried at its bottom a huge part of Russia's gold reserve from the plundered branch of the State Bank in Kazan... Once the local fisherman Stepan was looking in the lake for a drowned man and evidently hooked something more valuable with his pole. He dragged some box to the shore. And out of nowhere the manager of the local grocery, Filipchuk, came running. They got to talking. And Stepan was about to open the find when suddenly a knife flashed in the manager's hands... The last thing the fisherman saw was Filipchuk's cold eyes, and had Stepan known the grocer in his youth, he would easily have recognized in him Yakim, a once-famous raider and thief...

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Bait for a Sucker