Robert Bailey

RUSSIAN LOVE AND THE AMERICAN is a novel of intense passion in a world gone bad. After Tom MacLean’s screenwriting career collapses and he files for divorce, he unexpectedly meets Nika, a woman newly arrived in Malibu from a former Central Asian Soviet Republic. In time, they become lovers and MacLean is drawn into her world of danger and deception. He learns that she is running away from her Russian ex-special forces boyfriend, now a “mafiya” boss, who is plotting a coup in the homeland he once shared with Nika. Gregoriev is obsessed with Nika and won’t hesitate to kill any man who tries to claim her. One day she disappears and MacLean desperately tries to find the woman he loves. The dark side of Hollywood is revealed as MacLean navigates his self-made hell of film biz depravity and betrayal . MacLean realizes that they both face a deadly, implacable foe. A darkly comic and provocative tale of one man’s dissolution, RUSSIAN LOVE AND THE AMERICAN is a novel that captures a hidden world of greed and violence lurking below the surface of American life.