Book description
The Berlin Wall has crumbled. The Iron Curtain's been torn down.
But in the Kremlin, the battle for power goes on. And this time
there'll be more than a revolution...
When Mark Duncan, a Falklands veteran now working for the
Intelligence arm of the SAS, is suddenly pulled out of an important
operation in Northern Ireland, there has to be good reason. His close
friend and one-time comrade-in-arms, Victor Oldenburg, has been
kidnapped while checking out the arrangements for a planned royal
visit to the Soviet Union. Duncan's Russian family background and his
fluency in the language make him the obvious choice to monitor the
investigation for the British government.
Almost immediately, Duncan and the eccentric half-Muslim Moscow
policeman, Captain Myeloski, are caught up in a web of intrigue that
originates in the heart of the Kremlin. Victor Oldenburg and his
family are in mortal danger and their fate could determine the
political future of the New Soviet Republics.
Eddy Shah started out as a writer but was sidetracked into various
business enterprises. As the founder of a group of provincial
newspapers, he rapidly became one of Britain's most successful
entrepreneurs. He founded Today, Britain's first all-colour daily paper,
but sold his interest in newspapers in order to return to writing. His
previous three novels, Ring of Red Roses, The Lucy Ghosts and Manchester
Blue are also published by Corgi.
