From the author of FATHERLAND and ENIGMA, a novel set in modern Russia, which tells of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian who is in Moscow to attend a conference.
An unexpected encounter, and an idle enquiry, soon lead him into a murderous chase to find a final, hidden secret of Stalin's era. It was published in 1998 and adapted for television by the BBC in 2005.