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Winter 1952 Leningrads icy streets are haunted by a murderer The name is whispered everywhere Koshchei has returned the people say Koshchei the Immortal Koshchei named after a sinister figure from Slavic folklore is an invisible killer who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper containing a few lines of what seems to be Italian verse
Three thousand kilometres away in a labour colony above the Arctic Circle threatened by the Thieves who rule the camp former militia lieutenant Revol Rossel is close to death As helicopter blades whip the snow into hallucinatory flurries Rossel watches the arrival of a saviour he hates Major Nikitin the man who once cut off the former virtuoso violinists fingers
Along with skilled aviator Tanya Vassya Vasilievna the two men must hunt Koshchei down On the trail they uncover more riddles including one centred on the ruins of Hitlers bunker the Fuhrers own copy of a Renaissance manual for tyrants and secret code hidden within that leads to a weapon of unimaginable power A weapon coveted by the scheming plotters of Stalins Kremlin
What Rossel and Nikitin do not know is that the mystery and the murderer are inextricably linked And to save themselves they must not only catch Koshchei but also uncover the identity of another ghost a ghost hiding among the remnants of Hitlers once allpowerful Third Reich
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