The new novel from a master of the Cold War thriller . . . 'This is Robert Harris storytelling
territory' Daily Mail 'Outstanding' Sunday Times 'Tense exciting and authentic' Charles
Cumming author of Judas 62 'Stunning' The Times 'Brilliantly plotted' John Sweeney author of
Killer in the Kremlin 'A standout thriller' Financial Times 1963. In a desolate Russian penal
colony a radio broadcasts news of the killing of President John F. Kennedy . . . Alexander
Vasin's new posting as director of a brutal gulag camp is far from a promotion. This is where
disgraced KGB officers are sent to disappear quietly and forgotten. But when a violent revolt
breaks out Vasin must decide: run or die. So he runs. With him goes a mysterious prisoner - an
individual who might hold the key to an extraordinarily dangerous secret: the identity of who
really ordered Kennedy's assassination. Racing from bleak Siberian wastelands to the grey
streets of Soviet Moscow Vasin needs to stay one step ahead of the most ruthless intelligence
organization in the world in order to keep the most wanted man in Russia alive. And with his
loyalty morality and patriotic duty tested to the limits he will face the ultimate choice:
fall in line or die fighting the system . . . Weaving together a critical moment in history
with the cut-throat machinations of Soviet politics this tautly told nail-bitingly
atmospheric novel is a superb Cold War thriller.
