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Simon & Schuster UK, July 2011
Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
ISBN-10: 0857204092
ISBN-13: 9780857204097
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The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past.
Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not alone. Leo, his wife, and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance. Leo's desperate mission to save his family will take him from the harsh Siberian Gulags, to the depths of the criminal underworld, to the centre of the Hungarian uprising - and into a hell where redemption is as brittle as glass.
Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not alone. Leo, his wife, and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance. Leo's desperate mission to save his family will take him from the harsh Siberian Gulags, to the depths of the criminal underworld, to the centre of the Hungarian uprising - and into a hell where redemption is as brittle as glass.
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Herald Scotland, July 4, 2011
...Three years ago, few people had heard of Tom Rob Smith – unsurprising given that his writing career had then consisted mostly of jobs on TV soaps. Fewer still had heard of Leo Demidov, the fictional policeman Smith was ...
The Independent, July 2, 2011
...Even by the standards of Soviet citizenry, Leo Demidov is a very unlucky fellow. The protagonist of Tom Rob Smith's trio of Russian thrillers, a model secret policeman who belatedly located his moral compass, was born a starving peasant in ...
Poten & Partners, July 2, 2011
...Agent 6 is the third in Tom Rob Smith's trilogy about a former MGB agent, Leo Demidov. It opens with a flashback to the younger Leo in 1950, a committed secret policeman of 27 who has ...
Guardian.co.uk, June 29, 2011
...Tom Rob Smnith concludes his trilogy of Soviet thrillers Agent 6 is the third in Tom Rob Smith's trilogy about a former MGB agent, Leo Demidov. It opens with a flashback to the younger Leo in 1950, a committed secret policeman of 27 who ...
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