by Sam Eastland · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571245352
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«Eye of the Red Tsar» is the historical detective novel by Sam Eastland, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Set in Stalin's Russia, the novel follows Inspector Pekkala, the tsar's former favourite detective, confined in a Siberian gulag. Stalin brings him out to investigate the murder of the imperial family and locate the tsar's treasure. His freedom depends on solving the case; failure would mean death.
First instalment of the Inspector Pekkala series, originally published in 2010.
For readers of historical crime fiction and thrillers set in Stalin's Russia.
Paul Watkins is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.
