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Original Title:	Child 44
ISBN:	0446402397 (ISBN13: 9780446402392)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Leo Demidov #1
Characters:	Leo Demidov, Vasili Nikitin, Maj. Kuzmin, Raisa Demidov, Dr. Zarubin
Setting:	Rostov-on-Don(Russian Federation) Moscow,1953(Russian Federation)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2008), Barry Award for Best First Novel (2009), Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2009), Dilys Award Nominee (2009), Galaxy British Book Awards for New Writer of the Year (2009) ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel (2009), Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel (2008), CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2008), Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee (2008), このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2009), Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞 for Best Translated Novel (2008), Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2010)

Child 44 (Leo Demidov #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 509 pages

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Title	:	Child 44 (Leo Demidov #1)
Author	:	Tom Rob Smith
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 509 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2009 by Grand Central Publishing (first published March 3rd 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Crime

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MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...

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This one has been on my list for ages. Id read some excellent reviews, way back. I recalled reading that it's set in Russia in the 50s and that its a crime novel,but I couldnt remember much else. I counted this as a good thing as I really like to know as little as possible about a book before I launch into it.It opens with a scene in which a young boy is captured by a man and dragged away to an unknown fate, this during a time of famine. Its a disturbing start. Then, without any further

To survive as a detective in 1950s communist Russia, you have to put your country above all. Anything less is tantamount to high treason.When your superiors tell you to investigate a possible spy, you go and apprehend him/her without stopping to think about the accuracy of the accusation: "Better let ten innocent men suffer than one spy escape."If your subordinate thinks his son's tragic accident was in fact murder, you go and remind him of one of the fundaments of his society: "There is no

A very long time ago and far away, I used to starve myself. On purpose. I had this idea I would transform into a super model. Instead, one day I scratched my arm and tore my skin off. Taking a deep breath, I almost broke ribs, but as it turned out, I simply pulled rib muscles. True story. Going without food is terrible. It does awful things to your body, not just to your mind. 'Child 44' opens in a small Ukraine village in 1933. The entire Soviet Union, but mostly the Ukraine, under the

Child 44 is a novel that's hard to figure out where to place on the bookshelf. It's a political thriller, a murder mystery and a horror story all in one. Combining those elements alone would have been enough, but first-time novelist Tom Rob Smith takes is further, setting his story around the time of the death of Stalin in the former Soviet Union. Smith recreates the atmosphere of paranoia, doubt and suspicion of the time and place with ease, adding an extra layer of tension to his story.On the

Smith offers a look into the Soviet Union of 1953, a dark, desperate place in which the state had become a manifestation of Stalins paranoia. The ideological need of the state to present the communist ideal as an actualized reality impaired its ability, its willingness to address bad things when they happened, for surely, in this workers paradise, such things would never happen. Things like serial killers, things like crime of any sort. Thus all crime is ideological and all criminals are enemies

Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1), Tom Rob SmithChild 44 (first published in 2008) is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith. This is the first novel in a trilogy featuring former MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. This novel, the first in a trilogy, takes inspiration from the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Rostov Ripper, the Butcher of Rostov, and the Red Ripper. Chikatilo was convicted of and executed

3.5 starsSet at the end of Stalin's reign in 1953 this book was an eye opener for me. I just had no clue.Living in Russia at that time was when you lived in fear of that four a.m. arrest. Are you an enemy of the state? It didn't really matter if you were truly innocent, once you had been named you might as well kiss it good-bye.Leo Demidov is a former war hero who works for the MGB or state security force and had always done his job with no questioning of authority. There was a joke, popular