The secret speech

By Tom Rob Smith

Subjects: Soviet union, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Leo Demidov (Fictitious character), Fiction, suspense, Fiction, Mystery and detective, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, History

Description: Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime isbeginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.