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Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sam Eastland's Shadow Pass.
Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished to a forest on the outskirts of humanity. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. His mission: catch the assassins who slaughtered the Romanovs, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. 
In a land of uneasy alliances and lethal treachery, pursuing clues that have eluded everyone, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and lost in the fires of rebellion—and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its core the land he loves.
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Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished to a forest on the outskirts of humanity. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. His mission: catch the assassins who slaughtered the Romanovs, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. 
In a land of uneasy alliances and lethal treachery, pursuing clues that have eluded everyone, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and lost in the fires of rebellion—and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its core the land he loves.
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        "A triumph! With a canny eye for detail, Eastland re-creates the tragedy of the Romanov dynasty in this intelligent and relentless thriller."

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        February 15, 2010
        A disgraced detective is called back to investigate the most famous murder in Russian history.

        A fantastic premise, frenetic action sequences and a stellar setting would all set apart this debut novel by Eastland (the pseudonym of a British author now living in the United States). What elevates this Russian period thriller above the ranks of the average potboiler is its mad, brilliant hero, who has been brought back to life after giving up all hope in the Russian Gulag. The novel opens on a Siberian labor camp circa 1929, where one of Stalin's most hated nemeses has been exiled so far into the Soviet wilderness that his captors are afraid to approach the ghostly figure they call"The man with bloody hands." Into this harsh reality arrives young Commissar Kirov, who returns Prisoner 4745-P to the land of the living, complete with his old identity: Finnish-born detective Pekkala, whose loyalty to the Russian crown had cost him everything. Soon, Pekkala is brought before Commander Starek, who turns out to be the detective's long-lost brother Anton."The Tsar created a unique investigator, a man with absolute authority, who answered only to himself," Anton reveals."Even the Okhrana could not question him. They called him the Eye of the Tsar and he could not be bribed, or bought or threatened. It did not matter who you were, how wealthy or connected. No one stood above the Emerald Eye, not even the Tsar himself." Pekkala's assignment is to investigate a crime with which he is all too familiar—the execution of the Romanov dynasty, including Tsar Nicholas II and his line—although Pekkala soon discovers that one member of the family may in fact have escaped the massacre. The tale is a bit too reliant on flashbacks, but hair-raising action sequences and spellbinding settings make up for that minor flaw.

        So far, the lead contender for beach book of the summer.

        (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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        Pekkala, a young recruit in the Finnish Garrison, catches the eye of Tsar Nicholas II for his upright bearing and regard for horses. Pekkala eventually becomes the tsar's chief and most respected detective. When the Bolsheviks seize power in 1917, the tsar and his family are eventually murdered, and Pekkala is exiled to a remote corner of Siberia. This debut thriller is the story of how Pekkala is transformed into Stalin's foremost investigator after masterfully locating the murdered tsar's treasure trove. VERDICT There are enough facts woven into the fiction to make this account of the Romanov assassination gripping and memorable. Mining an era also inhabited by the awesomely popular Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin's tsarist detective, Eastland is succinct yet deeply affecting as he captures truthful emotions in depicting humanity's lust for power and gold. Fans of Russian thrillers (Tom Rob Smith's "Child 44", Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park", and David Benioff's "City of Thieves") will want this. Buy multiple copies for summer reading suggestions at your library. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/09; Stalinist Russia is also the subject of William Ryan's "The Holy Thief", which Minotaur is publishing as a "power debut" in September with a 125,000-copy first printing.Ed.]Barbara Conaty, Falls Church, VA

        Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished to a forest on the outskirts of humanity. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. His mission: catch the assassins who slaughtered the Romanovs, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. 
In a land of uneasy alliances and lethal treachery, pursuing clues that have eluded everyone, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and...
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