內容簡介
This title introduces Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, and an outstanding new voice in historical crime fiction... It's Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated Church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow militia is asked to investigate. But when he discovers that the victim is an American citizen, the NKVD - the most feared organisation in Russia - becomes involved. As more bodies are discovered and the pressure from above builds, Korolev begins to question who he can trust; and who, in this Russia where fear, uncertainty and hunger prevails, are the real criminals. Soon, Korolev will find not only his moral and political ideals Threatened, but also his life...
中文簡介
善良的小偷介紹了亞歷克斯這個冠軍隊長Dimitrevich Korolev,一個優秀的新聲音在歷史的偵探小說…這是莫斯科,1936年和年史達林的偉大的恐怖已經開始。在一個deconsecrated的教會,一個年輕的女人被發現死亡,她殘廢的身體顯示在壇上,所有的人都能看到。亞歷克斯Korolev隊長Dimitrevich偵查部門的民兵是要求調查莫斯科。但當他發現受害者是美國公民,NKVD -最可怕的組織在俄羅斯,成為參與。隨著越來越多的屍體被發現和壓力從上面的建立,Korolev開始問題他可以相信,誰,在這個俄羅斯在恐懼、不確定性和飢餓盛行,是真正的罪犯。不久,Korolev會發現不僅他的道德和政治理想受到了威脅,而且他的生活……
作者簡介
William Ryan is an Irish writer, living in London - having worked as a lawyer in the City of a number of years. In his spare time, he wrote on an occasional basis for television and film before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University in 2005.
威廉·雷恩是個愛爾蘭作家,住在倫敦——曾經作為一個律師在這個城市的許多年。在業餘時間,他寫了不定期在完成對電視和電影大師創作在聖安德魯大學於2005年。
