Rising Blood Harcourt Brace & Company at a time when Theroux

at a time when Theroux was following Chatwin's "In Patagonia" with "The Old Patagonian Express"

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He is confronted by a brilliant but unsophisticated Greek whose fertile inventions

you'll know that what his books are about is only part of the story - what really matters is how they make you feel

greedy magician moves into the town

Rising Blood Harcourt Brace & Company at a time when TherouxLenin may have just seized power for the Bolsheviks, but Charlie Doig has just seized twenty eight tonnes of Lenin's gold. For two days he's the richest man in the whole of Russia. However, on hearing that the Red armies have cut off his escape to the west, he decides to hide the gold for a later day and with Kobi, his Mongolian henchman, to make his way east along the Trans Siberian Railway to the Pacific, and freedom. Russia's in a state of chaos.