Martin Cruz Smith — American Writer

Martin Cruz Smith is an American mystery novelist. He is best known for his eight-novel series on Russian investigator Arkady Renko, who was first introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park... (wikipedia)

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
I hate to be categorized.
I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.