Book description
Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated
Church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the
altar for all to see.
Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev of the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Moscow Militia, is asked to investigate. But when he
discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD - the most
feared organisation in Russia - becomes involved.
As more bodies are discovered and the pressure from above builds,
Korolev begins to question who he can trust; and who, in this Russia
where fear, uncertainty and hunger prevails, are the real criminals.
Soon, Korolev will find not only his moral and political ideals
threatened, but also his life . . . William Ryan is an Irish writer,
living in London - having worked as a lawyer in the City of a number of
years. In his spare time, he wrote on an occasional basis for television
and film before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews
University in 2005.
