Gerbert Rappaport

Alyoshin, a young employee of the Bureau investigating financial crimes, does not feel that his profession is his calling, and asks to leave. His chief does not object, but gives him one last assignment: to find out last detail of just completed operation: two criminals in foreign currency black market have used tickets to the same show and the same seat. (Amazon)

Muscovites hope to be given new apartments by the state, recently built in the rapidly growing Moscow suburbs.

A Jewish surgeon, a war veteran, brillant scientist and respected citizen becomes a victim of the mad anti-semitic purge and stripped of all his possessions and discarded by the hospital. He is pressed back into service to perform an operation on a Nazi leader, and then machine-gunned as a reward. (Les Adams)