Whiskey Priest

Themes of identity faith and redemption combine as a disillusioned KGB assassin and an insecure female U.S. diplomat track down an Ivy League professor running a prostitution ring in Ukraine.</p><p> Anatoly Filatov is the whiskey priest a despairing Communist true believer whose world comes crashing down with the collapse of the USSR. Jane Sweet is the foreign-service officer a Ukrainian-American woman who discovers her identity as both a woman and a Ukrainian while liberating herself from her past. The action heats up as Filatov who is a part-time hit man for the Russian Mafia kills three American professors in Vienna. The fourth a cynical Ivy League professor and Soviet émigré Igor Bazarov escapes to Kiev. The four professors stole millions of dollars from the Mafia and invested in a prostitution ring that exploits Ukrainian women. </p><p>Filatov and Sweet pursue Bazarov throughout Ukraine and along the way Filatov seduces Sweet. As the two close in on Bazarov Sweet realizes she has been used--and plots revenge in a stunning conclusion.</p>