Child 44 - Hardcover

Smith, Tom Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847371264 ISBN 13: 9781847371263

Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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 the regime.
But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife.
Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life.
And still the killings of children continue...

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Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best Debut at the International Thriller Awards and Best Debut at the Strand Magazine awards.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847371264
• ISBN 13: 9781847371263
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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