In the Eye Of The Red Tsar, a compelling new crime fiction star bursts on to the scene, as a former Tsarist detective is called upon to do Stalin’s dirty work.
Inspector ‘Emerald Eye’ Pekkala was once the most famous detective in all Russia, and a favourite of the Tsar. Now, in the time of the Great Terror, he has been sent with millions of others to the Siberian gulag, the sub-arctic wasteland from which few emerge alive.
But then a reprieve comes, when Pekkala is suddenly summoned by Stalin himself. His mission is to uncover the men who really killed Nicholas II, and to locate his treasure. Success will mean his freedom and the chance to reunite with his long-lost love; failure will mean death …