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The Darkening Field

by William Ryan
Robin Sachs
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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.

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    February 14, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9781666589139
      • File size: 293487 KB
      • Duration: 10:11:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 21, 2011
      Ryan’s compelling if less than fully satisfying second Stalin-era thriller (after 2010’s The Holy Thief) takes Moscow CID detective Alexei Korolev to 1937 Odessa to look into the apparent suicide of Maria Lenskaya, a production assistant on a movie called The Darkening Field, found hanging in her room near the set. When Korolev examines the body, he detects marks indicating “that the rope she was found hanging from was not the cause of death.” Korolev joins forces with a gutsy junior detective from the Odessa CID, Nadezhda Slivka, to pursue the subsequent murder investigation. As the two interview reluctant witnesses and fight Communist bureaucracy, they must avoid making any political missteps. While an ever-widening cast and a few too many twists tend to undermine the story’s clear logic and atmospheric feel, readers will want to see more of Korolev, a weary but determined cop who puts justice ahead of Stalinist politics—at his peril. 75,000-copy first printing. Agent: David Higham Associates.

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