Minotaur Books
September 2010
On Sale: August 31, 2010
Featuring: Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev
352 pages ISBN: 0312586450 EAN: 9780312586454 Hardcover Add to Wish List
It's Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In
a deconsecrated
Church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body
displayed on the
altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev,
finally beginning to
enjoy the benefits of his success with the Criminal
Investigation Division of
the Moscow Militia, is asked to investigate. But when he
discovers that the
victim is an American citizen, the NKVD - the most feared
organisation in
Russia - becomes involved. Soon, Korolev's every move is
under close
scrutiny and one false move will mean exile to The Zone,
where the enemies
of the Soviet State, both real and imagined, meet their fate
in the frozen
camps of the far north. Committed to uncovering the truth
behind this
gruesome murder, Korolev, enters the realm of the Thieves,
who run
Moscow's underworld. And as more bodies are discovered and
the pressure
from above builds, Korolev begins to question who he can
trust; and who, in
this Russia where fear, uncertainty and hunger prevails, are
the real criminals.
Soon, Korolev will find not only his moral and political
ideals threatened, but
also his life.
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