Child 44 The first book in the Leo Demidov Series

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This novel is an amazingly assured and exciting debut set in Soviet Russia in 1953 with a wonderfully realised sense of all-pervading fear and the desperateness of a chilling race against time How do you solve an impossible crime?MGB Officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line He arrests whomever he is told to arrest He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia Leo is the perfect soldier of the regimeBut suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured And then he is told to arrest his own wifeLeo understands how the State works: Trust and check but check particularly on those we trust He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life And still the killings of children continue