On a cold, bleak day in 1916, all hell breaks loose in a mining pit in the Ural Mountains. Overcome by a strange paranoia, the miners attack one another, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two menβa horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsarβhit a detonator, blowin
Rasputin's Shadow
β Scribed by Raymond Khoury
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Dutton
- Year
- 2015;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 254 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
**Raymond Khoury, the international bestselling author of The Last Templar , is back with another ingenious, fast-paced thriller that straddles present-day NYC and Russia in the early 1900s--the time of the infamous Rasputin and his mysterious rise to power. **
FBI special agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a delicate case. A Russian diplomat seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a sixth-floor window in Queens, New York. The apartment's owners are missing, while a faceless killer known only as Koschey--"the Deathless"--is roaming the city and leaving a trail of death in his wake.
Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly's investigation soon uncovers a deadly, desperate search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back in time to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia. A device that, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on our world.
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