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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. |
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