The Molotov Box — Daniel Johnson

FROM RUSSIA, WITH . . . ? When Agent Gaby Bernard finally gets a chance to leave FBI headquarters for the field she is almost as excited by her intriguing partner as by the high-profile assignment she has wrangled or the exotic murder mystery they are sent to solve. But the apparent killer is an assassin also sought by the Russian Mafia and the killing seems to be part of a decades-old international conspiracy of plunder and assassination dating back to the fall of the Soviet Union. The situation soon spirals out of control, leaving Gaby in big trouble with Washington and in far more serious trouble with the mob.