Child 44
by:
Tom Rob Smith (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781847398086 (1847398081)
Publish date: April 1st 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: Leo Demidov (#1)
Leo's awakening. In the beginning of the book, Leo is a strong, effective state agent. Then things happened that begin to shake his faith of the state, or the state methodology. He was an agent of the state that caught citizens who were accused of subversion. Yet, these people who are caught ar...
How do you take a story of Chikatillo and make it somehow the government's fault? Why take the serial crimes happening in 1978-1990s and place these in 1960s? A get all about the artistic licence. And I'm no fan of USSR as well. But I'm no fan of blatant misrepresentation of widely-known facts. You ...
In Russia serial killer not Russian.Child 44 follows MGP - Russian police- security officer Leo Demidov. Leo tows the party line until circumstances force him to accept that crime does actually does exist in the Soviet Union. Leo is the only person interested in bringing a prolific serial killer to ...
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5/7 - Reading this book is making me HATE a country (I'm not sure if that's the right word, maybe it should be state), the Soviet Union to be exact. Of course the Soviet Union no longer exists and I believe life is better in Russia and the other countries that made up the USSR. But for me the feelin...