The Oligarch's Daughter, Finder - B

             The author specializes in preposterous page-turners and this is yet another.  Paul Brightman, a thirtysomething Manhattan hedge fund analyst, meets and falls in love with a struggling Greenwich Village artist.  Tatyana is Russian and speaks with a very slight accent.  Six months later, they are living together and she suggests that he meet her family.  Her dad, Arkady Galkin, is not a taxi driver from Brighton Beach, but rather a multi-billionaire who lives on the upper East Side.  Soon, Paul takes a job with his now father-in-law's 5th Avenue family office. When he realizes that the operation is illegal and funded by the Kremlin, he approaches the FBI.  The firm's security manager, a recent FSB agent, becomes suspicious, but Arkady backs Paul. When Arkady's security people arrive at his apartment, Paul excuses himself, escapes and heads to the FBI undercover office nearby. Everyone there is dead, and Paul takes a cab to the Port Authority.

     Five years later, he is working as a boat builder and an occasional fishing guide in a small town in New Hampshire. He gets the drop on the first Russian who shows up, but winds up in the woods running from the next two killers.  As good as he is, he can't make it on his own and is helped by hard-core survivalists. The story completely 'jumps the shark' as he survives,  exposes a CIA-KGB joint conspiracy and lives happily after. As incredulous as anything, it's still a one-day read.