Awards
Costa First Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Judges: "This gripping, unputdownable thriller is an exciting new addition to the genre."
Amidst the all-pervading fear of Stalinist Russia, an officer must toe the Party Line. Leo Demidov is the perfect soldier of the regime: he dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because there can be no murder in Communist Russia. But his confidence in the all-pervading doctrines of the Party is shaken when first he witnesses a man he knows to be innocent being brutally tortured...and is then told to arrest his own wife. Leo knows how the State works. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue....
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