The title story, "Radio Moscow" is a dark piece of literary prose about life behind the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It features alternating narratives between that of the wife of an American businessman or diplomat and the police officer charged with watching her. The poetry in the author's descriptions is wonderful in the way it depicts the cold, gray, dreariness of life in the Soviet Bloc.

The other great story is "Say No," a take on Cain's Double Indemnity. If you like gritty hardboiled writing, this is your filet mignon. It is chock full of that wonderful pulpy good stuff and it is great fun, filled with classic femme fatales and trips south of the border. ( )