Three years after the events of Child 44, former MGB agent Leo Dimidov is working for a homicide unit in Moscow, the only one of its kind.
Heavily researched and asking some very thought provoking questions this story does get quite bleak at times which doesn't make it a quick and easy read. Can Leo uncover who is responsible for this turn of events and how will he react when things take a more personal direction?Rather than being a criminal investigative story this sequel heads more towards the realms of thriller as an inexorable turn of events sees Leo head to the gulags and experience the Hungarian uprising first hand.
This is all set amidst the backdrop and fallout of Khrushchev's secret speech which admitted to mistakes made by Stalin's regime and it seems in some quarters that the fear of the system is being outweighed by the desire for vengeance on those who overstepped the mark that passed for justice in those days. Leo, now the head of the newly formed Homicide division, begins a new investigation which points to events in his past. Zoya, the older of the two girls is unable to forget or forgive that Leo was responsible for the death of her real parents and goes out of her way to ensure they don't become the happy family unit that the others crave. Leo, Raisa and the two girls they adopted are now together in Moscow.
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