Paul Maslansky

Communism and war, Moscow survived it all. But now it faces the ultimate threat: the world`s most hysterically inept crime busters as they chase an international criminal.

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met. Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British Secret Service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, who has plenty of experience with Russia and Russians. Barley, an unconventional character who doesn't respond well to authority, finds himself in a game more complex than he first thought when he digs into the origin of the notebooks. —Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>

When a crime ring unleashes the worst outbreak of lawlessness the city has known, only one team of crime busters can save everyone - the wacky characters from the Police Academy.

When the squad travels to Miami Beach to fete Commandant Lassard`s years of service, a luggage mix-up entangles the bumbling heroes with an international arms smuggling ring.

When the State decides to close one of the two Police Academies, Commandant Lassard`s Police Academy finds itself in deep trouble.

The crew in blue is back again. The wacky Keystone Cops have graduated to even higher levels of sheer pandemonium in the first sequel to one of the top comedy hits of all time.

As a crime wave sweeps the city, admission to the Police Academy is opened up. Now the first cadets - a set of oddballs, eccentrics and misfits - will be let loose on the streets.