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Rasputin's shadow / Raymond Khoury.

ISBN: 9780525953135 (hc.) :
ISBN: 0525953132 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780451468178 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: 406 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York, : Dutton ; 2013.

Summary:

Decades after a traumatized scientist blows up a mine where workers have savagely attacked one another, FBI agent Sean Reilly investigates the suicide of a Russian embassy attaché and a mysterious device with a world-threatening capability.

On a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners are overcome by a strange paranoia and attack one another savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, distrubing case. A Russian embassy attache seems to have committed suicide by jumping out a fourth-floor window in Queens. The apartment's owners. a retired high school teacher and his wife, have gone missing, while a faceless killer is roaming New York City, leaving a trail of death in his wake. Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly's investigation into the teacher's identity will uncover a deadly, desperate search back to the darkest days of the Cold War and Imperial Russia, and which, in the wrong hands, could have devastating impact on the modern world.