Summary
Sam Eastland: Around the Red Emperor
Just after midnight, on July 17, 1918, Bolshevik soldiers woke up the entire family of Tsar Nikolai Romanov, dragged them to the basement of Ipatija's house, where they were imprisoned, and executed them in cold blood. Their bodies were taken and hidden in a place known only to the top of the Soviet state. Ten years later, the once most trusted secret agent of the Romanov family and right-hand man of the Tsar himself, Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye, now lives as prisoner 4745-P in the Siberian forest where even the strongest perish in the merciless Soviet winter. But the state will suddenly pardon him because it needs another way. The man who knew the Romanovs best is given the last task: to find the murderers and find out if the emperor's child is still alive, and to hand over to Stalin the family treasure he longs for. If he finds their bodies, he will redeem himself. If he finds the child who survived, he will change history...
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