Sam Eastland. Bantam, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-52573-4
The pseudonymous Eastland’s excellent third thriller set in the Soviet Union under Stalin (after 2011’s Shadow Pass) makes the most of the remote location of much of the book’s action—Siberia. Countless lives hang on the caprice of Joseph Stalin,...
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Sam Eastland. Opus (www.opusbookpublishers.com), $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62316-049-4
In Eastland’s engrossing fifth Inspector Pekkala novel, the fourth to be published in the U.S. (after 2012’s Archive 17), Joseph Stalin is worried, though the war is going well by early 1944. Pekkala, an Investigator for the Bureau of Special...
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Sam Eastland. Opus (opusbookpublishers.com), $28.59 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62316-086-9
Early in Eastland’s excellent sixth Inspector Pekkala novel (after 2014’s The Beast in the Red Forest), Nicholas II gives the Finnish inspector (who’s the czar’s personal investigator) an assignment at the outbreak of WWI that involves a small...
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Sam Eastland. Opus, $28.95 (380p) ISBN 978-1-62316-090-6
In Eastland’s excellent seventh and final Inspector Pekkala novel (after 2015’s Red Icon), Stalin has one last mission for Pekkala and his associate, Major Kirov, in April 1945. The English have an agent in Berlin who has knowledge of the Diamond...
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