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In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries and betraying his homeland.

'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable … If only all first novels were as enthralling as this' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Merridale’s talents as a Russia expert and writer combine to beam light on the depths of Moscow’s...

Award-winning Russian historian Catherine Merridale turns her adept hand to fiction in this gripping and poignant thriller set on the eve of Stalin's Great Purge, for readers of Robert Harris and David McCkloskey. December 1934. Moscow is in ferment after the assassination of one of Stalin's...