One of the advantages of reading books by authors that are alive and web savvy is that there are often resources online that can add to the reading experience.
So having read One Hot Summer in St Petersburg there is a chance to look at some pictures that provide you with an idea of the world that Duncan Fallowell found himself in back in the early 1990s.
They are a great companion to the book and his site is packed full of other material well worth browsing.
Do take a look at www.duncanfallowell.com