Tom Rob Smith

Smith, Tom Rob

Child 44

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 05/11/2008 - 12:41pm by Karen Chisholm

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of...Read more

Child 44, Tom Rob Smith

REVIEW ADDED: Mon, 31/03/2008 - 3:03pm by Karen Chisholm

CHILD 44 is the debut novel for Tom Rob Smith, set in the dying days of Stalin's Soviet dream society, inspired by a real-life serial killer.

Starting in 1933, with villages of people starving to death in a desperate winter, the opening chapter of CHILD 44 deeply underscores...Read more

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Tom Rob Smith
Crime Fiction