But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a Peace Tour to New York City, he is immediately suspicious. AGENT 6 Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscows secret police. Deftly capturing the claustrophobic intensity of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, its at once a heart-pounding thriller and a richly atmospheric novel of extraordinary depth. In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Book Synopsis Tom Rob Smiths debut, Child 44, was an immediate sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. About the Book Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself-Provided by publisher.
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