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The Secret Speech

Pages
1440
Published
2009
Language
English

Synopsis

In the paranoid shadow of Stalin's Russia, KGB officer Leo Demidov investigates a string of suicides among his colleagues — each a victim of a mysterious sender of photographs exposing their past crimes. When the truth behind the sender is revealed, Leo is drawn into a desperate race to rescue a former priest and prisoner from a brutal gulag camp, all while the walls of the Soviet state begin to buckle under the weight of its own history.

How it reads

Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (4)
Graphic ViolenceTortureSubstance AbuseSuicide

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