Child 44 - Softcover

"An amazing debut - rich, different, fully-formed, mature ... and thrilling." -- Lee Child

"CHILD 44 is a remarkable debut novel - inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last." -- Scott Turow

"CHILD 44 telegraphs the talent and class of its writer from its opening pages, transporting you back to the darkest days of post-war Soviet Russia with assured efficiency and ruthlessly drawing you into its richly atmospheric and engrossing tale." --Raymond Khoury, bestselling author of THE LAST TEMPLAR and SANCTUARY

"Child 44 contrasts the bleakness of Stalinist Russia with a love story that unexpectedly and ironically blooms only because the lovers are nearly crushed by a relentless totalitarian regime hell bent on their destruction. As the two attempt to solve a series of brutal child murders the government is determined not to acknowledge, they must avoid being killed themselves in a simultaneous flight and pursuit across the wintry Russian landscape. Achingly suspenseful, full of feeling and of the twists and turns that one expects from Le Carre at his best, it's a tale that grabs you by the throat and simply never lets you go." --Robert Towne

"This is a truly remarkable debut novel. CHILD 44 is a rare blend of great insight, excellent writing, and a refreshingly original story. Favorable comparisons to GORKY PARK are inevitable, but CHILD 44 is in a class of its own." --Nelson DeMille

In Stalin's soviet union, crime does not exist. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the state, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to his execution.