![]() ![]() When the trip to the States ends in catastrophe, Leo once again finds himself on the wrong side of the State but this time he is out for revenge. He has a bad feeling about all of this and his instincts are never wrong.Īnd so Leo is once again caught in history’s talons, his destiny controlled by others. And even more so when he discovers his younger daughter Elena’s diary which has been secreted away in their flat. Naturally Leo is unhappy with this, afraid that once Raisa and their daughters, who are accompanying her, leave Russia something will go wrong and he’ll never see them again. But she is under strict orders to maintain all proper guidelines as anything untoward will affect the world’s view of the USSR. It is 1965 and Raisa, now a headmistress and on the government’s education board has been given the task of taking a select group of pupils to the United States as a gesture of dialogue between the two conflicting countries. Agent 6 takes up the tale several years after The Secret Speech. ![]() It was an attempt to separate a citizen’s public and private life, when no such gap existed.Īnd so we come to the concluding volume in Tom Rob Smith’s Soviet trilogy featuring ex-MGB operative Leo Demidov which began with Child 44 and continued in The Secret Speech. From the perspective of the secret police concealing a diary was a crime regardless of its content. ![]()
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