A Times'Best New Thriller'for May 2022'Enthralling...Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit'Financial Times'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery'The Times'A cleverly constructed thriller'Sunday Times'A fantastically tense atmosphere...A spine-tingling page-turner'The Sun _
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Leningrad,winter 1952. An invisible killer known as Koshchei - a nightmare of Slavic folklore - stalks the streets,leaving a distinctive and gruesome mark upon its victims.
Three thousand kilometres away in a Gulag labour colony,threatened by the vicious criminals who rule the camp and tormented by the Arctic cold,former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death.
But then a brutal saviour descends from the skies: the state security interrogator who years ago ruined his life is back,tasking Rossel with tracking down the murderer.
As the hunt continues,the two men uncover riddle after riddle,including a clue to finding a weapon of unimaginable power - a weapon the Kremlin's scheming plotters will kill for...
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupISBN: 9781802791938Number of pages: 448Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
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'A cleverly constructed thriller''A fantastically tense atmosphere,thickly spread with historical detail,makes this a spine-tingling page-turner''Enthralling...The dark story is leavened with sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit''Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery'PRAISE FOR CITY OF GHOSTS: 'A highly assured and entertaining debut...Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park (...) may have a true heir'The Times.'A worthy successor to Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko...A fine and often moving thriller'Financial Times.'Reminded me of Gorky Park,only I liked this tense,complex thriller even better'James Patterson.'Gripping...An excellent start to a new historical crime series'
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