Purchase
THE DEATH OF ACHILLES
By: Boris Akunin
Erast Fandorin Mystery
Random House
April 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0812968808
Trade Size (reprint)
Add to Wish List
Mystery | Thriller
In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, FandorinΓ―ΒΏΒ½s old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev (Γ―ΒΏΒ½AchillesΓ―ΒΏΒ½ to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an apparent heart attack. But Fandorin suspects an unnatural cause. His suspicions lead him to the boudoir of the beautiful singerΓ―ΒΏΒ½Γ―ΒΏΒ½not exactly a courtesanΓ―ΒΏΒ½Γ―ΒΏΒ½known as Wanda. Apparently, in WandaΓ―ΒΏΒ½s bed, the general secretly breathed his last. . . .
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - April 25, 2006
| 
© 2003-2026