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Shadow Pass

#2 in series

by Sam Eastland
Paul Michael
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Pekkala: He was the Romanovs’ most trusted investigator. Now he’s Stalin’s greatest fear.
 
He operates in the shadows of one of history’s most notorious regimes. He seeks the truth in a nation where finding it can mean death—or worse. His name his Inspector Pekkala, and this time he’s taking on a case with implications far deadlier than anything he can imagine: a shattering revelation that was never meant to be unearthed.
Its official name is T-34, and this massive and mysterious new weapon is being developed in total secrecy in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine. Its inventor, Colonel Rolan Nagorski, is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent.
And Josef Stalin is no innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, he brings in his best—if least obedient—detective to solve a murder that’s tantamount to treason. Answerable to no one, Pekkala has the dictator’s permission to go anywhere and interrogate anyone. But in Soviet Russia that’s easily a death sentence. The closer Pekkala gets to the answers, the more questions he uncovers—first and foremost, why is the state’s most dreaded female operative, Commissar Major Lysenkova, investigating the case when she’s only assigned to internal affairs?
Pekkala is on a collision course not only with the Soviet secret police but the USSR’s deepest military secrets. For what he is about to learn could put Stalin and his Communist state under for good—and bury Pekkala with them.
Brilliantly researched and rivetingly plotted, Shadow Pass is a superb story of suspense in a series growing only richer—and with a detective getting only better.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Inspector Pekkala

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 22, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307876690
      • File size: 282349 KB
      • Duration: 09:48:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A shadow pass allows its bearer to go pretty much anywhere, commandeer anything, even kill without consequences. Inspector Pekkala had one when he served the Romanovs. Next he did a stint in Siberia, and now he's back with a new shadow pass, this time from Stalin himself. Author Sam Eastland has done his history homework and uses it expertly; the same is true for narrator Paul Michael. The plot this time involves the suspected theft of a Soviet secret weapon, a terrifying tank Stalin hopes will win the coming war for him, and thickens when the inventor of the tank is murdered. Michael's Rasputin, encountered in flashbacks, is so vivid you can practically smell him, and the rest of the characters are equally alive in this witty and compelling performance. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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