Vodka — Boris Starling

December 1991. Beautiful American banker Alice Liddell has just arrived in Moscow as it reels under the collapse of the Soviet Union and suffers a brutal war between mafia gangs for control of the violently changing city.

Hired to oversee the privatization of Russia's legendary Red October vodka distillery, Alice soon finds her ideals compromised by its director, Lev, a gang leader as dangerously seductive as he is ruthless.

When a shadowy enemy vows revenge on Lev and a series of bizarre murders erupts in the darkest corners of the city, Alice finds herself being drawn into Moscow's dangerously violent underworld....