The sequel to Eye of the Red Tsar, a gripping Soviet-era thriller It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught of Nazi Germany. For the coming battles, Stalin has placed
The Red Coffin
โ Scribed by Sam Eastland
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Deep in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine known officially as T-34 is being developed in total secrecy. Its inventor is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, Stalin brings in his bestif least obedientdetective to solve a murder thats tantamount to treason. Answerable to no one, Inspector Pekkala has the dictators permission to go anywhere and interrogate anyone. But the closer Pekkala gets to answers, the more questions he uncoversfirst and foremost, why is the states most dreaded female operative, Commissar Major Lysenkova, investigating the case when shes only assigned to internal affairs?
In the shadows of one of historys most notorious regimes, Pekkala is on a collision course with not only the Soviet secret police but the USSRs deadliest military secrets. For what hes about to unearth could put Stalin and his Communist state under for goodand bury Pekkala with them.
Library : General
Universes : Inspector Pekkala [02]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780571245321
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