Amidst the chaos left in back alleyways and side streets, the Marker wages war against corruption in the crime-ridden metropolitan city of Ashden. Cloaked in a hood and a trench coat, he administers justice one villain at a time.

In his wake, investigative journalist Chris Verlorne observes and reports on the deeds of this hooded vigilante. When he stumbles upon the trail of a hidden arsonist serial killer, Chris vows to hunt him down and bring him to justice. But with no one else believing a killer is on the loose, Chris world begins to spiral out of control.

What he finds out might end up...

What is the relation of Soviet culture to Russian culture? How does a Soviet poet differ from a Russian poet? Sarah Pratt traces these interwoven questions in the work of Nikolai Zabolotsky, a figure ranking just behind Pasternak, Mandelstam, and Akhmatova in modern Russian poetry and the first major poet to come to light in the Soviet period. The book identifies a "Soviet" impulse, marked by a veneer of Marxist ideology and political acceptability, and a "Russian" impulse that reflects prerevolutionary mores and the cultural bedrock of Russian Orthodoxy. Because of this apparent split, and...