{"product_id":"kremlin-by-the-sea-9780966614565","title":"Kremlin-By-The-Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eKremlin-by-the-Sea is the first person account of Jake Gavronski, a third-generation\u003cbr\u003e Russian-American who sells real estate in the upscale community of Ponte Vedra\u003cbr\u003e Beach, Florida. He has recently lost his job as a professor of English at a small college\u003cbr\u003e in nearby St. Augustine due to a dalliance with one of his female students.\u003cbr\u003e Jake now works for his ex-wife, Elena McCrory, who has her own real estate company\u003cbr\u003e in Ponte Vedra. She takes him on as he cannot find employment elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e A call comes into Elena's office from a mysterious Russian buyer who wants to see an\u003cbr\u003e oceanfront mansion. Wary of the caller, she asks Jake to show the property.\u003cbr\u003e Jake meets the Russian buyer at the house, a man who introduces himself as\u003cbr\u003e Maximilianov Malenkovsky. 'Max, ' as he wants to be called, takes a brief tour of the\u003cbr\u003e house and says that he wants to buy it-for cash.\u003cbr\u003e After some cursory vetting of Mr. Malenkovsky, Elena agrees to present the offer. The\u003cbr\u003e owner, who is presently in hiding under the Federal Witness Protection Program, \u003cbr\u003e accepts and the deal is done.\u003cbr\u003e Max, however, is not done. After inviting Jake to celebrate at the property with a drink, \u003cbr\u003e he makes a proposal: that Jake accompany him to Russia and assist him in the\u003cbr\u003e purchase of properties there. Jake objects that he has no license to practice in Russia, \u003cbr\u003e nor does he know the market..\u003cbr\u003e Max waves these objections aside, saying that he can obtain a license for him. After some discussion with Elena, Jake decides to accept Max's proposal and soon they are off to Moscow.\u003cbr\u003e Max's real objective is to obtain certain oil fields in the Caspian Sea, off the coast of\u003cbr\u003e Azerbaijan. Since he is a rival of Vladimir Putin, he feels he must conceal his intentions\u003cbr\u003e and thus use Jake as a straw man.\u003cbr\u003e While in Moscow, Jake becomes involved with a Russian opera singer who also\u003cbr\u003e happens to be a lawyer-and much else. This is Anna Pavlovna Andropova. Her talents, \u003cbr\u003e her beauty, and her sultry charms completely seduce Jake and though he has a\u003cbr\u003e girlfriend back home, falls head over heels in love with her.\u003cbr\u003e An ex-wife, a girlfriend, a lover in Moscow, along with a very dangerous entanglement\u003cbr\u003e with a Russian oligarch, all threaten to shatter Jake's heretofore complacent bourgeois\u003cbr\u003e life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Pressley Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jamin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780966614565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalker, Benjamin Pressley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ben Walker is also the author of Sentimental Music, a novel set in contemporary Florida, as well as several plays. Blood Relations, a black comedy of race, sex, and dashed dreams was a winner of the 1997 South Carolina Playwrights' Conference Competition in Beaufort, S.C. Return of the Native (2018) is the third in a trilogy set in the Deep South during events of the 19th Century. The first, Winds of the South, set in 1830's Georgia, was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Medal competition honoring literary works deemed to be 'thought-provoking' by the nominating committee. The second, entitled An Island in the South, was published in 2012 and takes place during Reconstruction. Mr. Walker is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, as well as San Francisco State University, where he received an M.A. degree in creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Jacksonville, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jamin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40275892502643,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a526a629-d8a4-4d7e-b566-f3d586b48d86.jpg?v=1657895311","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/kremlin-by-the-sea-9780966614565","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}