Two Hundred Brand New Shiny Cadillacs

This story spans borders as we follow Ukrainian-born Mark Neider on a series of adventures and misadventures in the United States and Russia in the early 1990s. From crime to constitutional crisis and film directors to romantic entanglements, this tale engages readers from beginning to end.

Mark Neider, a young Ukrainian-born American IT specialist, finds himself in crime-ridden Yeltsin's Russia, hot on the trail of wheeler dealers who swindled him out of a small fortune back in New York. In Moscow, Mark survives an aborted coup in October 1993 and encounters a mysterious stranger who claims to have had a hand in the recent constitutional crisis. Tasha, Mark's Moscow daredevil girlfriend, helps him retrieve the money at a significant body count, but Mark is only allowed to leave the country with 10K, a mere fraction of the loot now in his possession. Tasha and her film scholar aunt hatch a plan. Tasha's aunt keeps the money while her wealthy Chicagoan ex disburses the equivalent amount to Mark in return for Mark's interviewing the elderly sister of Greg Davis, an American film director who is the subject of Tasha's aunt's scholarly interest. But there's more than meets the eye to Greg Davis's sister who takes Mark on a journey he may or may not return from.

Pavel Lembersky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1977. After receiving his BA in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, Pavel did graduate work in film at San Francisco State University. He worked in New York City on film projects of Jonathan Demme and Spalding Gray and the Oscar-winning The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, among others. Pavel authored seven collections of short fiction and three novels. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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