A Traitor's Heart A Times 'Best New Thriller 2022'

A <i>Times</i> 'Best New Thriller' for May 2022 'Enthralling . . . Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' <i>Financial Times</i> 'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' <i>The Times</i> 'A cleverly constructed thriller' <i>Sunday Times</i> 'A fantastically tense atmosphere . . . A spine-tingling page-turner' <i>The Sun</i> <b>Leningrad, winter 1952.</b> An invisible killer known as Koshchei - a nightmare of Slavic folklore - stalks the streets, leaving a distinctive and gruesome mark upon its victims. Three thousand kilometres away in a Gulag labour colony, threatened by the vicious criminals who rule the camp and tormented by the Arctic cold, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death. But then a brutal saviour descends from the skies: the state security interrogator who years ago ruined his life is back, tasking Rossel with tracking down the murderer. As