CRIME SCRAPS PRIZE TIME: VOLK'S GAME

Those kind people at Picador USA have sent me two copies of Brent Ghelfi's thriller Volk's Game to give away. I have not quite finished reading this novel but can confirm that it is a page turner that moves at a frenetic pace.

'Non-stop action from start to finish....not for the faint of heart, but the beauty of Ghelfi's prose makes this a must read book.....'

                                     Seattle Mystery Bookshop

'Brent Ghelfi writes like Dostoevsky's hooligan great-grandson on speed. Volk's Game is hard, fast and a truly excellent debut'

                         Lee Child

With two copies to give away I better make the questions fairly easy so:

1) Who is the present President of the Russian Federation? 

2) What is the the name of the detective in Boris Akunin's series that includes Turkish Gambit and Murder on the Leviathan?

Send your answers to thbear08@gmail.com and get to know Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy who makes Jason Bourne seem like Mary Poppins.