Moskva

<p><b>*Longlisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller*</b><br><b><br>'Even better than <i>Child 44</i>' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, ... highly recommended'</b> Shots Magazine<br>'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow already exists (<i>Gorky Park</i>), <i>Moskva</i> looks like a crazy gamble. But it's one that comes off' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . . .'</b> <br><br>January, 1986. A week after disgraced Intelligence Officer Tom Fox is stationed to Moscow the British Ambassador's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing. Fox is ordered to find her, and fast. But the last thing the Soviets want is a foreign agent snooping about on their turf. Not when a killer they can't even acknowledge let alone catch is preparing to kill again . . .<br><br>A Cold War thriller haunted by an evil legacy from the Second World War, <i>Moskva</i> is a journey into the dark heart of another time and place.<br><br>'Mesmerising, surefooted, vividly realised . . . something special in the arena of international thrillers' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>'A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist' Michael Marshall, author of <i>The Straw Men</i><br><br>'A blizzard of exciting set pieces, superbly realized' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></p> <p><b>*Longlisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller*</b><br><b><br>'Even better than <i>Child 44</i>' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, ... highly recommended'</b> Shots Magazine<br>'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow already exists (<i>Gorky Park</i>), <i>Moskva</i> looks like a crazy gamble. But it's one that comes off' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . . .'</b> <br><br>January, 1986. A week after disgraced Intelligence Officer Tom Fox is stationed to Moscow the British Ambassador's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing. Fox is ordered to find her, and fast. But the last thing the Soviets want is a foreign agent snooping about on their turf. Not when a killer they can't even acknowledge let alone catch is preparing to kill again . . .<br><br>A Cold War thriller haunted by an evil legacy from the Second World War, <i>Moskva</i> is a journey into the dark heart of another time and place.<br><br>'Mesmerising, surefooted, vividly realised . . . something special in the arena of international thrillers' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>'A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist' Michael Marshall, author of <i>The Straw Men</i><br><br>'A blizzard of exciting set pieces, superbly realized' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>