{"product_id":"man-of-bones-ben-creed-9781802793130","title":"Man of Bones by Ben Creed (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Utterly compelling, both in its propulsive plotting and the dark and dangerously relevant themes it explores' Jake Arnott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'You'll find yourself looking over your shoulder when you leave the house!' Trevor Wood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winter 1953\u003c\/b\u003e. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now he knows it's murder.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Only recently released from a brutal Siberian labour camp and determined to find his missing sister at last, Rossel wants nothing to do with this new case. But his alcoholic, broken superior officer, Captain Lipukhin, seizes upon it as his salvation - a last chance to be a true Soviet hero.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Along with sharp-witted Senior Lieutenant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e There is only one eyewitness - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, whose giant right hand stretches out towards the frozen River Neva. Lenin, Rossel thinks, seems to be pointing at someone. But who?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PRAISE FOR BEN CREED -\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' AND\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eCWA GOLD DAGGER SHORTLISTED\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Reminded me of \u003ci\u003eGorky Park\u003c\/i\u003e, only I liked this tense, complex thriller even better'\u003cb\u003eJAMES PATTERSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Brilliantly orchestrated and totally engrossing' \u003cb\u003eTHE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A worthy successor to Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A fantastically tense atmosphere . . . A spine-tingling page-turner' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Welbeck Publishing Group Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55036136194391,"sku":"9781802793130","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781802793130_98aecb38-f0f8-435c-81ca-05a0270ab7ca.jpg?v=1789513593","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/man-of-bones-ben-creed-9781802793130","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}