A Traitor’s Heart - Ben Creed

Category: Historical Fiction, Novel, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: 1950's City of Ghosts Iron Curtain USSR

Written by Ben Creed
Read by Saul Reichlin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A Traitor’s Heart
By: Ben Creed
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Series: City of Ghosts , Book 2
Release date
14-04-2022
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
11 hrs and 16 mins
Publisher
W. F. Howes Ltd
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Winter, 1952: Leningrad’s icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei has returned, the people say, Koshchei the Immortal. Koshchei, named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore, is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines of what seems to be Italian verse.

Three thousand kilometres away in a labour colony above the Arctic Circle, threatened by the Thieves who rule the camp, former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death. As helicopter blades whip the snow into hallucinatory flurries, Rossel watches the arrival of a saviour he hates: Major Nikitin, the man who once cut off the former virtuoso violinist’s fingers.

Along with skilled aviator Tanya ‘Vassya’ Vasilievna, the two men must hunt Koshchei down. On the trail, they uncover more riddles, including one centred on the ruins of Hitler’s bunker, the Fuhrer’s own copy of a Renaissance manual for tyrants, and secret code hidden within that leads to a weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon coveted by the scheming plotters of Stalin’s Kremlin.

What Rossel and Nikitin do not know is that the mystery and the murderer are inextricably linked. And to save themselves they must not only catch Koshchei but also uncover the identity of another ghost – a ghost hiding among the remnants of Hitler’s once all-powerful Third Reich.

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