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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith

200811 pagesabout 10–15 minutes
2008
first published
  • 2008Simon & Schuster, Limited · 473 pages · ENGISBN 9781847371270
  • 2008Windsor/Paragon · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9781405687423
  • 2009Simon & Schuster, Limited · 480 pages · ENGISBN 9781847398086
  • 2011Simon & Schuster, Limited · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780857204080
  • 2012Grand Central Publishing · 480 pages · ENGISBN 9780446572767
  • 2014Simon & Schuster Ltd · ENGISBN 9781471133473
  • 2008Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd · 480 pagesISBN 9781847371263
  • 2015Grand Central Publishing · 11 pagesISBN 9781478985914

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue ...

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