A Times 'Best New Thriller' for May 2022 'Enthralling ... The dark story is leavened with sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' Financial Times'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' The Times'A cleverly constructed thriller' Sunday Times'A fantastically tense atmosphere, thickly spread with historical detail, makes this a spine-tingling page-turner' The SunLeningrad, winter 1952. An invisible killer known as Koshchei - a nightmare of Slavic folklore - stalks the streets, leaving a distinctive and gruesome mark upon its victims.Three thousand kilometres away in a Gulag labour colony, threatened by the vicious criminals who rule the camp and tormented by the Arctic cold, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death.But then a brutal saviour descends from the skies: the state security interrogator who years ago ruined his life is back, tasking Rossel with tracking down the murderer.As the hunt continues, the two men uncover riddle after riddle, including a clue to finding a weapon of unimaginable power - a weapon the Kremlin's scheming plotters will kill for . . .
ISBN: | 9781802791938 |
Publisher: | Welbeck Publishing |
Imprint: | Welbeck |
Published date: | 28 Apr 2022 |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 441 |
Weight: | 666g |
Height: | 163mm |
Width: | 243mm |
Spine width: | 37mm |