by Tom Rob Smith · Simon & Schuster Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857204080
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«Child 44» is the suspense novel by Tom Rob Smith, published by Simon & Schuster Ltd in paperback (512 pages, in English).
In Stalin's Soviet Union crime does not exist, but millions live in fear. Leo Demidov, an idealistic officer, sees his loyalty waver when he must investigate his wife Raisa while a killer acts with impunity. Exiled, he risks everything to catch the criminal the regime denies and discovers that the danger is the country he swore to protect.
Opens the Leo Demidov trilogy, inspired by a real Soviet serial killer case. Nominated for the Booker Prize and winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Barry Award.
Tom Rob Smith is an English author, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the author of Child 44, a novel about the investigation of child murders during the Soviet Union. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, and Smith has written two sequels: The Secret Speech and Agent 6. His first standalone novel, The Farm, was published in 2014.
