MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
Report this bookAn amazingly assured and exciting debut, set in Soviet Russia in l953, with awonderfully realised sense of all-pervading fear and the desperateness of a...
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Blood hell can you belive it htis author is only 29. 29 wow & this what get my top book of the...
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An amazing debut novel - page turning, griping, I have yet to find a person who hasn't been...
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