Michael Idov Books in Order

Mark and Nina open a Viennese-style coffeehouse on Manhattan's Lower East Side, convinced they can introduce authentic café culture. Instead, their romantic business dream becomes a cascade of financial and personal disasters that puts their marriage and self-image under pressure.

Returning to Russia to edit GQ, Latvian-born American writer Michael Idov enters Moscow's media world as political tensions rise. His memoir follows the collision between personal ambition, family identity, and the unpredictable culture of celebrity and power surrounding Putin's Russia.

A CIA officer shaken by an asset's death crosses paths with an heiress whose Russian American father has disappeared. Their search draws them into a far-reaching conspiracy, exposing the tangled relationship between post-Soviet Russia and the American intelligence world.

Exiled in Georgia after exposing a government conspiracy, CIA officer Ari Falk receives a chance to redeem himself by infiltrating European extremists. With another officer's uncertain help, he must confront a dangerous target whose alliances threaten the international balance of power.