Cold Blood: A Novel

Charlie Doig the hero of White Blood returns in another magnificent and thrilling adventure set in Russia as it descends into the chaos and confusion of a full-blown revolution. . The Russian Revolution is breaking out all around him but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. Even if he dies in the attempt hes going to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov the Bolshevik who murdered Doigs beautiful wife Elizaveta. Certain that Glebov will sooner or later turn up at Lenins side Doig makes his way to St. Petersburg. There amidst the chaos of the Revolution Charlie discovers that Glebov has been put in charge of the political re-education of the Tsar and his family in Ekaterinburg. The chase begins. Having captured an armored train Charlie and the ragtag private army he has recruited fight their way toward Siberia. Near Kazan he hears rumors that the Tsars gold reserves are in the city and that Glebov is also after them. He determines that hell avenge Elizaveta and grab the gold in one swoop. James Fleming is one of modern fictions great stylists. His prose is marvelously robust and vivid his plot breathtaking in its pace and excitement and his protagonist as the Independent said of the previous Doig novel White Blood is the right kind of hero: virile ruthless adventurous.