Eye of the Red Tsar
A Crime, Thriller, Fiction book. Some people thirst for fame. They will do anything to have it. They will betray anyone. They will...
First in a gripping new series of detective novels set at the birth of Stalin's Russia. It is the time of the Great Terror.Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was once the most famous detective in all Russia, the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is Concerned,he is as good as dead. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar's treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom and the chance to re-unite with the woman he would have married if the Revolution had not torn them apart. The price of failure -death.Set against the backdrop of the paranoid...
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- Pages: 464 pages
- ISBN: 9780571250585 / 571250580
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Some people thirst for fame. They will do anything to have it. They will betray anyone. They will humiliate themselves and those around them. To be hated or loved makes no difference to them. What they want is to be known. Is is a sad addiction, and such people wallow in it all their lives, like pigs in filth. Sam Eastland, Eye of the Red Tsar // Greed does not rest until it is satisfied, and greed is never satisfied Sam Eastland, Eye of the Red Tsar // You are not that kind of man Pekkala. You are not the monster that your enemies once believed you to be. If you were, you would never have been such a formidable opponent for people like myself. Monsters are easy to defeat. With such people, it is only a question of blood and time, since there only weapon is fear. But you-you won the hearts of the people and the respect of your enemies. I do not believe you understand how rare a thing that is, and those whose hearts you won are out there still." Stalin brushed his hand towards the window, and out across...
I enjoyed this one, but it gets two stars because, after writing this review, I realized my enjoyment had more to do with the subject matter than with the actual merits of the book. I've always had a fascination with Russian history, especially anything dealing with the Romanovs and the Revolution. I've devoured numerous books on the... Just arrived from Finland through BM.A very griping espionage story of Inspector Pekkala who formerly was Tsar's special investigator.The plot involves the Romanov's assassination with the historical background of the Russian revolution. I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. It's still an honest review, but the FTC wanted you to know...----------------This was a good story, which I won from goodreads. Despite being a little slower than I expected (the book is advertised as a thriller, but is more of a historical mystery) I really enjoyed it. It...
