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Résumé:
Stalin's most trusted secret agent, the legendary Inspector
Pekkala, is on his deadliest mission--one that could save his
country . . . or plunge it into the abyss.
It is 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with
Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his
regime, Stalin orders a search for the legendary missing gold
of Tsar Nicholas II. For this task, he chooses Pekkala, the
former investigator for the Tsar. To accomplish his mission,
Pekkala will go undercover, returning to Siberia and the
nightmare of his own past, where he was once a prisoner in the
notorious Gulag known as Borodok.
Pekkala must infiltrate a gang of convicts still loyal to
the Tsar who, it is rumored, know the whereabouts of the
precious gold. He soon learns that the best-kept secrets are
those that no one even knows exist.
In the brutal frozen fortress where his survival once
made him a myth, he begins to unravel the true identity of a
murdered inmate,...