Russian Pulp #2
EXPLOSIVE SUMMER by Marina Serova

(backcover copy translated by Rupert Gordon, who also gave me these books for this site)

In full view of private detective Tatiana Ivanova, her boyfriend Police Captain Andrei Melchikov is wounded by a burst of machine-gun fire near the entrance to a casino. Was it accident or revenge? Or maybe it was gangsters trying to cover their tracks - not long ago the financial director of a very shady firm that was under police investigation died in a car-bomb blast. Tatiana quickly picks up the trail and, together with her Operative friends, goes after the criminals literally following in their footsteps. Along this thorny path she is powerless even to stop new explosions and murder attempts...

About The Author: Graduate of Moscow State University. Worked in the Prosecutor General's Office. From 1987 to present she has worked in one of the Secret Services. She has taken part in military manoeuvres and Operative measures. The author is at the forefront of suspense writing, and print runs for her work exceed four million copies.

The only publication detail I can understand is the date: 2001
 
THE ROAD TO HELL by Vitaly Gladkiy

(back cover copy translated by Rupert Gordon)

They were united by fate: Agent Vedernikov, leading an investigation into the killing of a Deputy, hitman Karasev, grown tired of his dirty work, and SAS man Levadu (going by the codename Volkodav) fulfilling a dangerous mission to crack a drugs ring. Arrested by Vedernikov, the hitman ends up in a special school of the all-powerful GRU, where 'legal' killers are trained, and becomes Volkodav's sparring-partner. Before long they recieve a special mission - eliminate a former Party boss, fled abroad with party funds...

Sorry about the title on the scan. It's the curse of shiny print on a scanner.

Vitaly Gladkiy was born in 1947. He is author of the books: "Doomed to Kill", "In the Serpent's Tracks", "No Trail of Evidence", "Violent Hunt", "The Abbot's Last Sacrifice", "Blood Tie", "The Palm Sword" and others. He has been published both in the countries of the CIS and abroad and has won the Kopolyenko Literary Prize.
 

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