By the author of the world-wide bestsellers, Jerusalem, and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, and based on a true story, a heart-breaking, addictively readable love story set in Stalin's Russia.
Moscow 1945. As Stalin celebrates victory over Hitler, shots ring out. The children of Russia's most important leaders are dead. Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy? An investigation begins and children are arrested, forced to testify against their friends - and their parents. This is an epic tale of youth, love and betrayal in Stalinist Russia, from the author of SASHENKA.
