A taut and shocking story of vengeance, bloodshed and love, set over 100 days of bitter Russian winter from the bestselling author of Messiah. Moscow, December 1991. Chaos reigns after the fall of communism. Muscovites are used to queues and empty shelves, but now they have to cope with a dangerous power vacuum and a war between brutal mafiya gangs for control of the city. So when a childs body is found beneath the ice of the Moscow river it attracts little attention to begin with. Then a second body is found. And a third. At the heart of the gathering storm is Red October, Russias most famous vodka distillery. Alice Liddell, an American banker, has come to Moscow to oversee its privatization an unpopular move. Alice wants to get going, but faced with the charismatic, ruthless Lev distiller director and head of one of the warring mafia gangs a very difficult job is starting to look impossible. Levs archenemy has vowed revenge on him and it seems that the bizarre child killings might be part of this. The last thing he needs is a determined young woman in the heart of his criminal empire. But will Lev and Alice be enemies or allies? And when the storm has passed, who will be left standing?

Binding: Paperback;672 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 573.14 g; Dimensions: N/A

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