The brainfever bird

the long version

"Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Once a biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in 'that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams'. So he decides to take his lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. He goes to India - and then he is robbed." "It is in a helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful and different, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. For a few days an awkward romance blossoms between them. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed."--BOOK JACKET.