Child 44

By Tom Rob Smith

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Child 44 is the 2008 debut novel by Tom Rob Smith, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In Stalin's Soviet Union, where officially there is no crime, MGB officer Leo Demidov discovers a pattern of child murders. Disgraced and exiled, he risks everything to stop the killer.

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