BG: I fell in love with bValya/b from the first line I wrote about her. Her background as a Chechen refugee opens any number of windows into Russia's southern wars and its troubled history in the Caucasus (a few of which we peer through in the follow-up book ... BG: The idea for Volk's Game came to me early one morning while looking down on Red Square from a fourth-floor balcony at the National bHotel/b. I saw a man in a black overcoat making his way across the deserted square, ...
