Dog of the Afterworld

Nikolai Fyodorov, a young Russian assassin in Alaska, is humiliated by a mysterious gunman but is given one chance to redeem himself. He must kill a U.S. senator, and he must go to the hot, windy plains of rural Kansas to do it. He finds a state beset by industrial farming, extreme right-wing politics, and kidnappers who prey on teenage girls. Nikolai confronts the betrayal that led him into the assassin's trade and the price he must pay for his family's past -- and he must escape the temptation of love that draws him toward his own death. Read more