Molot

Born in Siberia in 1922 and brought up by Sofiya and Alexei in Moscow during the Stalinist terror Molot is an honest man who sacrifices his humanity to survive. He fought in Mongolia lived amongst the Mongolian tribes took part in the slaughter of the Winter War in Finland faced the German invasion in the Ukraine and was with the Russian delegation at Nuremberg. His first love was a shaman and his wife was a whore; when he left her he fell in love again and forever. Molot's story is interwoven with that of his grandson Gunther the head of Sofiya's criminal empire. As befits the young Achilles Gunther's story is full of lust and killing as he travels from the Crimea to Tokyo Berlin Paris and Chechnya. This is Book Three of Pathways to Revenge. Expect Book Four before spring 2013.