Child 44
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 regime.But 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 wife.Leo 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...
- Författare
- Tom Rob Smith
- (Tom Rob Smith.)
- Språk
- Engelska
| Förlag | År | Ort | Om boken | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon & Schuster UK | 2018 | Utgivningsland okänt / Ej specificerat | 512 sidor 20 cm | 978-1-4711-7517-6 |
| Simon & Schuster | 2015 | Storbritannien, London | 478 sidor. | 978-1-4711-3347-3 |
| Simon & Schuster | 2011 | Storbritannien, London | 473 sidor 18 cm | 978-1-84983-485-8 |
| Grand Central Publishing | December 2011 | 468 sidor | 978-0-446-57276-7 | |
| Simon Schuster Ltd | 2011 | 978-0-85720-408-0 | ||
| Pocket Books | 2009 | Storbritannien, London | 484 [10]s. | 978-1-84739-373-9 |
| Simon & Schuster | 2008 | England, London | 473 sidor. | 978-1-84737-126-3, 1-84737-126-4 |
| 2008 | New York | 1-84737-127-2, 978-0-446-40238-5, 0-446-40238-9, 978-1-84737-127-0 |