[electrobooks] tom Rob smith, the secret speech
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "freelists electrobooks books" <electrobooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 06:47:22 +0100
Morning all,
The new Tom Rob smith is to be my next scan.
Here is the book jacket info.
The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning
to fracture. It leaves behind a society where the police are the criminals,
and the criminals are innocent. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges
reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget
the past.
Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. The two young
girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in
the brutal murder of their parents. They are not alone. Leo, Raisa and ¦
their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge against Leo.
Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance.
Leo's desperate, personal mission to save his family will take him from the
harsh Siberian Gulags, to the depths of the criminal underworld, to the
centre of the Hungarian uprising - and into a hell where redemption is as
brittle as glass.
Tom Rob Smith was born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father
and was brought up in London where he still lives. His first novel, CHILD
44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa
First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime
Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best
adventure/thriller novel of 2008.
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