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The White Russian

Name: The White Russian
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Author: Tom Bradby
ISBN: 9781400032006

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Published on Jun 08, 2004 | 464 Pages

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January 1917—With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city’s chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just outside the Tsar’s Winter Palace. Ruzsky’s investigation leads him dangerously close to the royal family and to the woman he loves, and he finds himself confronting both a ruthless killer and the ghosts of his past as he fights desperately to save all that he cares for.

With meticulous research and narrative skill Tom Bradby brilliantly re-creates the gilded salons and squalid tenements of St. Petersburg in the last days of the tsars. Evocative and thrilling, The White Russian is a tumultuous story of murder and betrayal in a city at the crossroads of history.

“A cunning story of love, death and betrayal.” –Chicago Tribune

“Atmospheric and richly entertaining. . . . Political intrigue of the highest order.” –The Washington Post

“A stretch limo of a book, needing every inch of interior space to incorporate its grand themes of political intrigue, social unrest and romantic betrayal.” –The News & Observer

“Imperial Russia and the story of the doomed royal family continue to fascinate…. The tale of the Romanovs has always been stranger than fiction. Still, the small details that Bradby includes…lend a tantalizing authenticity to his fictional sidebar to one of the great stories of the twentieth century.” –Orlando Sentinel

“Brilliant. . . . St. Petersburg . . . illuminates The White Russian. . . . Rusky is a character to remember. . . . A complex mystery.”—Columbus Dispatch

“Brady fills The White Russian with great period detail and fits his intrigues snugly within the complicated and dangerous politics of its time. . . . Rusky and Maria’s doomed love . . . Rusky’s attempt to reconnect with his young son, and his father’s clumsy move toward reconciliation give The White Russian a poignancy and urgency that go perfectly with its portrait of a nation on the edge of the abyss.” —The Flint Journal

“Exceptionally rich. . . . The White Russian is a masterful creation of suspense set in deadly times.” —The Manhattan Mercury (Kansas)

Author

Tom Bradby

Tom Bradby, a foreign correspondent for the British television network ITN, is the author of The Master of Rain and The White Russian. He has spent the last nine years covering British and American politics, as well as conflicts in China, Ireland, Kosovo, and Indonesia. While living in Hong Kong and writing this novel, Bradby researched historical records and archives of 1920s Shanghai. He now lives in London with his wife and three children.

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