Traffic North
“I’m not your usual cop,” Anchorage Detective Sasha Kulaeva admits. No kidding. Since the death of her State Trooper husband in a drug bust, she’s sought balm in booze—without much success. And she’s become somewhat of a vigilante at her job—with perhaps too much success.
For Sasha, Miranda is an impediment, the ACLU are meddlers. Now, she’s partnered with Charlie Dana, a straight-shooting FBI agent, more boy scout than action hero. “You’ll bend the law however it suits you,” Dana complains to her.
“Bend it, beat it, shake it, break it,” she answers.
Their wildly differing views on the law make for a contentious working relationship that simmers in Anchorage, boils over in the Aleutian Islands, and comes to an explosive conclusion in Vladivostok, on Russia’s Pacific coast.
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Like a recurring bad dream, Anchorage Police Detective Sasha Kulaeva is once again dragged into the machinations of an international crime cartel that stretches from Afghanistan to Brooklyn, with bloody stops in Vladivostok and Alaska.
On the Russian side of the Bering Sea, a unique plan is hatched to breach American borders and flood the country with Afghani-grown heroin.
Sasha and her partner, newly minted detective Oscar Wasillie have to find the nexus between a local murder in Anchorage and a seemingly never-ending flow of drugs into Alaska.
Alaska Transit
Detective Sasha Kulaeva and her partners in the Anchorage Police Department discover that heroin is pouring into Alaska from Russia. The cops manage pretty well to contain the problem on their home turf, but when they have to take the fight across the Bering Sea, things get hairy.
Because she is a native Russian speaker, (learned from her grandfather, a former Soviet pilot stationed in Fairbanks during the war) Sasha is chosen to travel to the source of the problem: the city of Chelyabinsk, on the Russian border with Kazakhstan. She quickly realizes the impossibility of completely stemming the flow of the world’s most popular drug, but maybe, just maybe she can put up a temporary road-block. Her situation is made more charged when she has to chase the bad guys on a long train trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Aleutian Depot
Crime Trilogy