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No Time for Heroes (The Cowley and Danilov Thrillers) Kindle Edition

by Brian Freemantle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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A diplomat’s murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer
  There’s nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there’s not much the police can do about it. They’re prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man’s ID. He was Russian—and a diplomat. William Cowley, the head of the FBI’s Russian office, takes on the case. A year earlier he had solved a strange killing with the help of Dimitri Danilov, a Russian cop with a sense of honor rare in the lawless, post-Communist world. Now they rejoin forces, embarking on an around-the-world search for the meaning of the diplomat’s death. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

No Time for Heroes is the second book in the Cowley and Danilov Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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A top FBI man joins forces with his Moscow counterpart to investigate the Russian mob.
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We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Freemantle has no peer when it comes to writing espionage thrillers. His latest book is as good as they get, with Russia and the U.S. cooperating--yes, cooperating--to track down the who, how, and why behind the bizarre, Mafia-style murder of a Russian diplomat in Washington. Dimitri Danilov, the stolid, solid Soviet cop who's having trouble coping with the "new" Russia and his own personal problems, teams up--as he did in Freemantle's earlier The Button Man (1993)--with William Cowley, semirenegade FBI investigator who has an alcohol problem on top of his tough, politically sensitive job inside the Beltway. The two find themselves globe-trotting, from Geneva to Brighton Beach to Sicily to Moscow, in hopes of unearthing the brilliantly conceived, highly complex, big-bucks-at-stake plot behind the brutal murder. Freemantle includes a mile-a-minute action, a mind-boggling story line, edge-of-your-seat suspense, subtle wit, and two heroes whose occasional feet of clay don't keep them from being superb investigators and genuinely good human beings. An absolute must for every collection. Emily Melton

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005KL4NP2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (September 13, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3453 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 555 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.

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Ken C.
4.0 out of 5 stars Where's Charlie?
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2014
Yes, I did enjoy No Time For Heroes, and I'll bet author Brian Freemantle had a blast writing it. Imagine being so powerful that he could kill off so many characters! The story is well told, and the action builds up to a credible ending. But, as appealing as the Russian investigator Danilov is, or even the American, Crowley, there is no Charlie Muffin-like character to win our hearts and root for. All in all, it's a bunch of unknown Russians who suffer in this novel, and I didn't much care about them. But poor Olga,well...
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Serge Pesic
5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2013
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Another winner in this short series. Mr. Freemantle writes thinking man's mysteries. His smartly plotted novels unravel slowly, like a real case would, I imagine. You stumble upon a blind alley or two, but in the end, you find the right way with an immense pleasure. Great book.
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Don Marcotte
3.0 out of 5 stars Cold War crime drama
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013
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It is a good read which deals with unusual sleuthing because of its international dimensions. It is well crafted and keeps ones interest throughout. While not in the "can't put it down category" it is worth reading.
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roger
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2013
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on par with all other of brains b ooks danilov has similar traits to Charlie muffin ,a real good read
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John G. Hilliard
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2002
Ok so we get two standards in the thriller world, the unlikely pairing up of two anti heroes and the dark, problem ridden cop who some how work together and save the world. So did it work, yes it did. I may have been a bit biased when I picked up the book becuase I have read many of his others in the past and they have all been wonderful so I expected this to also be. This author is great at building the speed of the story up so that you stay turned in and race yourself to the end of the book. Well written story and characters add to a great book that is well worth the time.
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David
4.0 out of 5 stars A screen tapper (Kindle speak for page turner)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2016
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This is the second book in the series in which Russian Militia officer Danilov teams up with FBI officer Cowley to solve crimes affecting both Russia and the USA. It is set in the early 1990s, not long after the fall of the Soviet Union. Like the first book, the action takes place mainly in Moscow but in this one there are also sequences in Washington, New York and Sicily. I would recommend that you do not read this until you've read the first in the series, In the Name of a Killer (aka The Button Man). It is a shame that the third and fourth Cowley & Danilov novels (The Watchmen and Triple Cross) are not available on Kindle, though I've been able to acquire them in hardback for future reading.

As anyone familiar with Brian Freemantle's work, and particularly his Charlie Muffin novels, will know, his stories are full of bluff and double bluff, deception and counter deception and the need for the main protagonists to think at least three or four moves ahead. Whilst this novel is not spy fiction as such (the enemy is the Russian Mafia) it has much in common with that genre, though closer to Le Carré than Fleming. It is a screen tapper (the Kindle equivalent of a page turner) and quickly gets you hooked; I've got through its 400+ pages very quickly. Both the main characters are interesting and multifaceted (Danilov especially) and both are in some way flawed. The author's detailed knowledge of post-communist Russia is much in evidence. You will know instinctively whether or not you usually enjoy this type of fiction. If you do, then add this one to your reading list.
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