A MASTER...AT His BEST.

  --Time

A desperate chase through the complicated and conflicting strands of modern-day Russia...intriguing.

  --USA Today

A literate new thriller...his best plotted and most absorbing.

  --The Philadelphia Inquirer

Thrilling, suspenseful, well-researched, and finely written.

   --Los Angeles Times Book Review

gratifying reminder that it is possible to writepopularfiction with intelligence and grace.

   --The Washington Post

 It would be the find of a lifetime--a personal notebook that once belonged to Josef Stalin. For Fluke Kelso, a British professor of Russian history,unearthing it would catapult him from the ranks ofmediocrity to fame and fortune. But more than onelife is at stake in the murderous race for the truth.And in the vast forests of northern Russia, the final,shocking secret of Josef Stalin, hidden for almost half a century, waits to be discovered...