Like a Thousand Thunders

“Like a Thousand Thunders” is a novel set in Moscow of 1994. Rave culture, business à la Russian. A fairy tale and reality, a love story, a friendship story. The first part of Sergey Kuznetsov’s trilogy “Nineties: a Fairy Tale.” On a single day, two girls die. Zhenya Koroleva is presumably poisoned. Mila Aksalants is presumably driven to suicide. “Life guru” Yulik Gorsky and Anton—his Archie Goodwin—investigate these two deaths, so different and yet mysteriously connected…