A Russian novel about poisons of all kinds - physical, moral, political - all rooted in the recent history of Russias state assassinations and Putins continuation of the most degraded traditions of his countrys history.
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Author
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Sergei Lebedev |
GBPPrice
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18.9900 |
An extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physical, moral and political. \r\n\r\nUntraceable is a wonderful piece of fiction rooted in the recent history of Russias state assassinations, especially the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.\r\n\r\nProfessor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany.\r\n\r\nAfter an unrelated Russian is murdered with Kalitins poison, his cover is blown and hes drawn into the German investigation of the death. Two special forces killers with a lot of Chechen blood on their hands are sent to silence him - using his own undetectable poison. Their journey to their target is full of blunders, mishaps, holdups and accidents.\r\n\r\nUrgently topical and compellingly readable.