Book description
SEPTEMBER 1939. THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. Even as the
fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the
missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims
to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the
Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches
Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death. Stalin summons Pekkala to
the Kremlin and orders him to solve the murder. To accomplish his
mission, he must return to Borodok, the notorious Gulag where he
himself spent many years as a prisoner. There, he must pose as a
inmate in order to unravel the mystery . . . As he returns to the
nightmares of his past, is this a mission too far for the great Pekkala?
Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a
London police detective. His first novel was Eye of the Red Tsar.
