A classic and atmospheric novel, set during the Stalin era, filled with suspense, mystery and adventure.

A high government official is shot on the street on a cold winter night, and the search for the killer begins. In Victor Serge’s panoramic vision of the Stalin era, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence- at least of the crime of which they have been accused. But this, the best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges, is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux’s Man’s Fate and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.