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It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit relationship with the party director. His instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up for murder, and if so, to find her killer. She was working on the set of a movie subsidized by the state, and the pool of possible suspects is large and daunting. Korolev finds help from several quarters, but none of them can make up for the one important fact of his case which he cannot discuss. Moral, loyal, and also committed to justice, Korolev is trapped between the demands of the party and those of the truth.Product Identifiers
PublisherDreamscape Media, LLC
ISBN-101611206200
ISBN-139781611206203
eBay Product ID (ePID)112580860
Product Key Features
Book TitleDarkening Field
TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, Thrillers / Espionage, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2012
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Ryan
Book SeriesCaptain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev Ser.
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height1.1in
Item Length7.4in
Item Width6.5in
Item Weight6.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsStarred review. "Booklist lauded Ryan's first Korolev novel, The Holy Thief, and this successor fully delivers on the promise of that judgment. Korolev is a wonderful character, a spiritual ancestor of Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko, persevering amid the murderous paranoia of Stalin's Russia. The plot is intricate, the action satisfying, and Ryan's use of period detail, including the brutal 'collectivization' of the Ukraine and that region's nationalist and anarchist movements, makes for exhilarating reading." - Booklist
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number2
Number of Volumes9 Vols.
Dewey Decimal823/.92
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition