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Kind 44 ist ein Kriminalroman des britischen Schriftstellers Tom Rob Smith aus dem Jahr Er spielt in der stalinistischen Sowjetunion Anfang der er Jahre. Gegen den Willen der Obrigkeit, die die Taten lieber vertuscht sehen möchte. Kind 44 | Tom Rob Smith, Armin Gontermann | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Kind sawchain.eu: Smith, Tom Rob, Gontermann, Armin: Bücher. Mir fehlt noch etwa ein Drittel vom Buch, aber mittlerweile weiß ich auch, warum das Buch Kind 44 heißt. Und so langsam besteht auch eine Verbindung. Kind 44 (englischer Originaltitel: Child 44) ist ein Kriminalroman des britischen Schriftstellers Smith, der die Hintergründe dieser Zeit dem Buch Ernte des Todes des britischen Historikers Robert Conquest entnahm, erklärte: „Der wahre. Thalia: Infos zu Autor, Inhalt und Bewertungen ❤ Jetzt»Kind 44 / Leo Demidow Bd.1«nach Hause oder Ihre Filiale vor Ort bestellen! Buchreihe: Leo Demidow von Tom Rob Smith Alle Bücher in chronologischer Reihenfolge. 4 Bücher. 1 Cover des Buches Kind 44 (ISBN: ).
Tony Robbins die ersten paar Seiten haben mich vollkommen überzeugt, und ich habe selten Stephen Belafonte einen gelungenen Einstieg gelesen. Jetzt erkennt er auch die Rituale hinter den Morden. To stop these murders, Demidov must become himself a criminal against the state. Sie liess sich auf Leo Demidov ein, Programm Tele 5 sie wusste, dass sie durch ihn jederzeit ins Visier des MBG geraten konnte. I didn't really like the characters at the end of the book, they are likable but they all are certainly understandable and interesting. The state-sanctioned punishments and intended consequences for destroying anything remotely natural in human Frauenknast Serie are historical fact. Er soll seine eigene Frau denunzieren, was für selbige den Reine Nervensache Tod bedeuten würde. Persönlich haftender Gesellschafter: buecher. DE Januar Da Maria beschlossen hatte zu sterben, w rde ihre Katze sich allein durchschlagen m ssen.
Maria hatte sich schon viel l er um sie gek mmert, als vern nftig war. L st waren die M e im Dorf von den Dorfbewohnern gefangen und vertilgt worden.
Einige Zeit sp r verschwanden auch die Katzen und Hunde. Alle, au r einer Katze, dieser hier, die Maria versteckt gehalten hatte.
Warum hatte sie sie behalten? Weil sie etwas war, wof r man leben konnte, was man besch tzen und lieben konnte -etwas, f r das es sich lohnte zu berleben.
Sie hatte sich geschworen, die Katze bis zu dem Tag zu f ttern, an dem sie selbst nichts mehr zu essen hatte. Dieser Tag war heute. Maria hatte schon ihre Lederstiefel in d nne Streifen geschnitten und sie mit Brennnesseln und R bsamen aufgekocht.
Sie hatte nach Regenw rmern gegraben und Rinde gegessen. Heute Morgen hatte sie im fiebrigen Delirium ein Bein ihres K chenstuhls angenagt und gekaut und gekaut, bis ihr Splitter das Zahnfleisch blutig gestochen hatten.
Die Katze hatte das gesehen und sich unter dem Bett versteckt; sie weigerte sich, wieder darunter hervorzukommen, auch als Maria sich hingekniet, sie beim Namen gerufen und gelockt hatte.
In diesem Moment hatte Maria beschlossen zu sterben. Es gab nichts zu essen, und nicht mal mehr eine Katze konnte man liebhaben. Sie wartete bis zum Einbruch der D erung, bis sie sie freilie Sie rechnete sich aus, dass die Katze im Schutz der Dunkelheit bessere Chancen h e, ungesehen den Wald zu erreichen.
Wenn irgendwer im Dorf sie sah, w rde man sie jagen. Obwohl Maria selbst dem Tod so nah war, brachte der Gedanke, dass man ihre Katze t ten k nnte, sie aus der Fassung.
Sie beruhigte sich damit, dass die Katze das erraschungselement auf ihrer Seite h e. In einer Gemeinschaft, wo erwachsene M er Erdklumpen kauten in der Hoffnung auf Ameisen oder Insektenlarven, wo die Kinder Pferdedung zerpfl ckten in der Hoffnung auf unverdaute Getreidek rner und wo Frauen sich um den Besitz von Knochen pr gelten, w rde mit Sicherheit niemand glauben, dass noch eine Katze am Leben sein konnte.
Pavel traute seinen Augen nicht. Es war tapsig, d rr, hatte gr ne Augen und ein schwarz geflecktes Fell. Eindeutig eine Katze. Er war gerade dabei, Feuerholz zu sammeln, als er sah, wie sie aus Maria Antonownas Haus und ber die schneebedeckte Stra in Richtung Wald schoss.
Pavel hielt den Atem an und schaute rasch um sich. Niemand sonst hatte sie entdeckt. Keiner war zu sehen, kein Licht brannte in den Fenstern.
Aus kaum der H te der Schornsteine stiegen d nne Rauchschwaden auf, die einzigen Lebenszeichen. Es war, als h e der heftige Schneefall das Dorf erstickt, alle Anzeichen von Leben ausgel scht.
Der meiste Schnee lag unber hrt da, es gab kaum Fu puren und kein einziger Pfad war freigeschaufelt worden. There was a joke, popular 3.
There was a joke, popular among officers, who could tell it with impunity. A man and his wife were asleep in bed when they were woken by a sharp knock on the door.
Fearing the worst, they got up and kissed each other goodbye: I love you, wife. I love you, husband. Having said their goodbyes they opened the front door.
Standing before them was a frantic neighbor, a corridor full of smoke and flames as high as the ceiling. The man and his wife smiled with relief and thanked God: it was just the building on fire.
Then when Leo is forced with an impossible choice he is demoted and sent to a distant out-breach. He and his wife Raisa must start a different kind of life.
He then figures out there is a serial killer targeting children all over the place. This blows my mind but there was supposedly "no crime" so that fact must be covered up and innocent people suffered.
At one point one hundred and fifty homosexual men are exposed and punished. Just because of their homosexuality.
This book is gritty and violent but it was an awakening to a point in history that I will not forget. The writing in the book did distract me with all the conversations being done in italics but I still couldn't stop reading it.
Then the ending was not what I really wanted thus the 3. There is soon to be a movie based on this book starring Tom Hardy.
I hope they do this book justice. View all 16 comments. Oct 10, Richard Derus rated it really liked it. Sorry, I know that all the caps are like having your lashes tweezed, but this is the Soviet Union we're talking about, and everything is A Slogan.
The proletariat is blissfully free of the Capitalist Curse Called Crime. They're more afraid of the State than they are each other. With good reason.
There are traitors, informants, everywhere. Even in your own bed, you are never safe from the danger of being outed as a bad Socialist with the least, most offhand criticism of the Paradise.
And death comes, whether quickly or slowly, to those whom the Cthulhu of the State Security apparatus notices. Leo Demidov, then, shouldn't have a job as a criminal investigator.
In fact, he doesn't. He's a well-rewarded apparatchik who, in the course of interrogating his fellow citizens, notices a disturbing pattern of murders Leo's life changes, from privileged servant of the regime to lone wolf investigator to vengeful assassin, over the course of the story.
His solution to the crimes being committed is chilling in its outlines and satisfying in its conclusion. My Review : I don't believe I've ever read so much text in italics before, and I don't think I've ever read a thriller with so little direct action before, either.
The dialogue, what little there is of it, is italicized; there are few places where anyone addresses anyone else for more than a sentence or two.
Husband Leo and wife Raisa have one--that's all, one--intimate conversation, which is a new low count in my thriller reading.
But what a wallop this book packs! I can't imagine the agonies of researching and writing such a grisly book, given that most writers are sensitive flowers whose emotional lives are very much up on the surface of their lives.
Tom Rob Smith wrote this awful book about awful people doing awful things in an awful country to amuse and entertain us. He succeeds in this, though sometimes I wanted to wash my eyes out with Clorox.
The main character, Leo, is a nasty apparatchik in the State Security forces under Stalin. He's a man who has put his sense of rightness, fairness and justice into the hands of vile, unworthy leaders, and turned off his moral compass.
The reasons that it turns back on, and the results of Leo's single-minded pursuit of a child murderer, are Leo's past leads him to a future that I can't call bright, but at least he's able to do the right thing sometimes.
I don't think this book is for everyone, but I think it's really, really interesting and quite exciting and well worth the attention of the non-squeamish.
View all 11 comments. Jul 18, Carol rated it really liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , mystery , read , buddy-read-susan , chunkster , cultural-russia.
You can trust no one Life is Fear. Life is Torture. Innocence does not matter. Life is a matter of Efficiency, more important than Truth.
Update: September 26, Watched the movie and all I can say is that I wish I would have spent the two plus hours reading.
View all 26 comments. Sep 30, Willow rated it it was amazing Shelves: mystery , favorites , russia. So of course while I was reading, I wanted to tell everybody about it, shout it to the rooftops, fighting the urge to send a recommendation to all my good GR buddies.
In fact, the beginning almost reads like a horror novel. Tom Rob Smith creates this nightmarish, claustrophobic world of mistrust and fear that made me feel like I had been thrown into a horrible dystopia.
Moscow during the time of Stalin was brutal, and I think the realization that these atrocities really happened is what grabs you.
I was so completely engulfed in the paranoia along with the characters that I loved it. The basic story is about a murderer traveling around Russia slaughtering children based off a true story.
But instead of trying to catch the killer, the State wants to push it under the rug. Consequently, for an officer of the Militia to honestly try to fight crime is very dangerous.
In many ways the story is a lot like The Hangman's Daughter. His characters are not modern, enlightened individuals that are better than everyone else.
They are part of this society, with their own fears and rationalizations. I liked that. I like the journey that Leo has to take. And to my surprise, the suspense for Child 44 does not come from endless action scenes.
It comes from the anticipation that the State can and does horrible things to innocent people all the time. What is going to happen to Leo?
What will happen to his wife, his parents and anyone that helps him? I think through a good portion of this book, I was clutching the pages.
Smith never forgets his premise either. The premise had to have a full arc. The ending was a little bit too pat and easy, consequently making it the weakest part of the book.
But how much gloom and doom can a reader take? I think Child 44 is excellent! I give it six stars! I will definitely read book 2.
View all 41 comments. Oct 09, Dem rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , russian-history , recommended. Child 44 is one of those books that only come along once in awhile and when it does it makes you exclaim out loud.
Its a book not for the faint hearted but a real page turner. View 1 comment. A very long time ago and far away, I used to starve myself.
On purpose. I had this idea I would transform into a super model. Instead, one day I scratched my arm and tore my skin off. Taking a deep breath, I almost broke ribs, but as it turned out, I simply pulled rib muscles.
True story. Going without food is terrible. It does awful things to your body, not just to your mind. The entire Soviet Union, but mostly the Ukraine, under the dictator A very long time ago and far away, I used to starve myself.
The entire Soviet Union, but mostly the Ukraine, under the dictatorial hand of the mass murderer Joseph Stalin , is starving, much as Stalin himself did as a child.
Ten-year-old Ukrainian Pavel and his brother, seven-year-old nearsighted Andrei, are starving. It is , and their village thinks it has eaten all of the rats and cats.
People are chewing bark to kill the hunger. Luckily, one day the boys see what must be the last surviving cat. So they run after the single remaining cat which has slinked off into the forest.
Unknown to the boys, someone is hunting them. The children are thin, but they have on their bones good meat in the eyes of the starving, whether man or beast.
The desperate hungry man following the children gets ready with his club and sack From Wikipedia: "Under Stalin's rule the concept of "Socialism in One Country" became a central tenet of Soviet society, contrary to Leon Trotsky's view that socialism must be spread through continuous international revolutions.
He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early s with a highly centralized command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power.
The economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of millions of people in Gulag labour camps. The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of —33, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.
Between and he organized and led the "Great Purge", a massive campaign of repression of the party, government, armed forces and intelligentsia, in which millions of so-called "enemies of the working class" were imprisoned, exiled or executed, often without due process.
Major figures in the Communist Party and government, and many Red Army high commanders, were killed after being convicted of treason in show trial.
While historians continue to disagree whether the policies that led to Holodomor fall under the legal definition of genocide, twenty-six countries have officially recognized the Holodomor as such It would appear that Stalin intended to use the starvation as a cheap and efficient means as opposed to deportations and shootings to kill off those deemed to be "counterrevolutionaries," "idlers," and "thieves," but not to annihilate the Ukrainian peasantry as a whole.
Ellman also claims that, while this was not the only Soviet genocide e. Jora cheated, throwing a snowball full of rocks and mud which knocks out one of Arkady's teeth.
Disbelieving and hurt, Arkady runs off towards the train yard to cry - and he becomes a key to a mystery.
The 43rd key. Forty-three murders Little Arkady's body is discovered, unclothed, gutted like a deer, and with his mouth full of chewed bark.
The Soviet Union does not, cannot, accept that Arkady's unusual death presentation was a murder.
Communism is a perfect system of economics and social organization, and under Communism, nobody can possibly want to murder anyone. The Soviet people have all been remolded by the Great Leader Stalin into a perfect society where all necessities are met; so if there has been a death, it must be an accident.
Anyone who saw the actual condition of the body must be convinced of their error of their perceptions. Well, gentle reader, 'investigate' is perhaps the wrong word, since Leo's job is actually about tracking down social anomalies and dissonances that hurt the image of the perfection of Communism.
He forces witnesses to retract any statements marring the picture of the perfection of Communist society. These folks who insist on 'deviant' attitudes towards Communism - not recognizing its social perfection - are made to confess their errors.
Then they are tortured for any information about close friends, neighbors and work acquaintances who might also be in error regarding the perfection of Communism and Stalin.
They then are shot or sent by train to the gulags. Since these 'deviants' may have contaminated their families, grandparents, children and other near relatives with their lack of faith in Communist perfection, the entire family is also arrested, tortured and imprisoned, just in case.
Leo is good at his job. He has a talent for hunting anti-Communist 'deviants', and he, at age 30, is respected by his superiors. He actually has been rewarded with a small apartment for himself and his wife, a survivor of the last war, and he has a bit more food available to him than most.
Although he lives with unending anxiety, mostly because no one around him seems to live very long without being accused of anticommunism and arrested for errors of thinking, or acting as if they are thinking incorrectly, Leo is a absolute believer in Stalin and Communism.
At least, he was. Lately, he has been noticing torture creates factual inconsistencies in confessions. There seems to be excessive killing and torture of obviously innocent and worthy citizens.
Reports are concocted with standard boilerplate instead of facts. Not trusting anyone, including your parents, wife or child, is an awful way to live, especially in having to monitor even minute movements of body language - a raised eyebrow, or a hand playing with a pen.
It is very wearing. However, even though Leo has discovered one can be a perfect Communist under Stalin's leadership and still be accused, tortured and shot which is confusing and surprisingly, beginning to terrify him he believes in the theories of Communism.
He hopes people will be remolded into something better in the end. They all just need to concentrate on the Big Picture for the common good and change themselves and eliminate their obstinate personal physical desires and motivations, like for food, warmth and love.
But Leo is given two cases which together shake his faith. The first case is forcing Arkady's family to say the little boy was hit by a train and not bizarrely murdered.
The second case is the tracking of a 'criminal' of the state, someone who was suspected of errors of infected thought from contact with foreigners.
Both jobs result in executions which shake him to his core. He experiences a mental dissonance, and Leo can no longer ignore his doubts.
An MGB competitor takes advantage of Leo's new hesitations and reports him for suspicion of being a dissident. Although he is cleared by heroic actions in the capture of the runaway criminal with infected thoughts, he is demoted anyway because he may yet possess possible philosophical deviations.
Suspected deviations of thought means he might be a spy according to Stalin's book of Marxist-based writ, slogans and rote any suspicion is enough proof of philosophical deviation.
So finally, Leo and his wife Raisa are sent away to serve in an impoverished starving Ural village militia near Voualsk. In Voualsk, a child is discovered murdered in the forest, being gutted like a deer with chewed bark put in her mouth.
Impossible, but there it is. Leo finds he is driven to find the murderer now that his barriers against improper thinking have cracked.
Luckily, he finds allies and with their help, he figures out there have been at least 44 murders of children by one man.
But mistakes are made, and under the police mechanisms of the Soviet Union his suspicious research activities are spotted. The official network of the State cannot allow him to find such a person as a murderer under Communism because murderers are an impossibility in the Soviet Union.
If Leo discovers an actual murderer, it is Leo who must be executed for his knowledge. Nonetheless, he can't let it go.
People are going to die, and not the guilty. Will Leo be arrested before he can find the childkiller? This is the best thriller I have read this year!
It is the type of thriller which I had to put down frequently, though, gentle reader. It is THAT kind of good. Stalin's Soviet Union is described in vividly stifling and claustrophobic horror.
The state-sanctioned punishments and intended consequences for destroying anything remotely natural in human behavior are historical fact.
The author studied historical documents and read interviews given by Soviet citizens to use as background for this incredible mystery. The murderer is also based on historical fact!
Unfortunately, so was the officially sanctioned murdering of suspected dissidents in the Soviet Union. Beginning with Karl Marx: Karl Marx , grandson of Jewish rabbis, joined socialist societies, wrote articles for newspapers, and wrote first and second drafts of books which would make him an influential historical figure.
However, he and his family starved from terrible poverty in England. He came from money, but his views on labor and capitalism made him a pariah to many European monarchs and governments.
On the run for most of his youth, he finally settled in London. Several of his children died from poor health developed after starving in London.
His work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought.
Many intellectuals, labour unions, artists and political parties worldwide have been influenced by Marx's work, with many modifying or adapting his ideas.
Marx is typically cited as one of the principal architects of modern sociology and social sciences. Marx was a deep-thinking intellectual, whose interest mainly was in alleviating economic inequality.
At the time, many of his ideas were also being expressed by other intellectuals, but his books pulling together all of the untried economic ideas plus adding his own unique thought caught fire with those of the public concerned with the huge gaps in opportunity and wealth between social classes.
Anyone who reads his most famous books, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital will see how attractive these theories were to the starving poor and me, frankly, years ago as well as intellectuals.
However, they have proven disastrous when practiced, mostly because they do not take into consideration human nature itself.
As Dr. Moreau in H. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau discovered, the animal flesh persists. Stalin may have honestly believed in Communism, but he also was a psychopath, in my opinion.
He twisted Marxist principles into something monstrous which seemed to satisfy a personal hunger for killing and torture more than about fixing inequality in society.
Looking at the results of Stalin's social reengineering in the Soviet Union, it was as if he wanted to recreate a society which mirrored the abused starved childhood he had had.
Stalin forced his countrymen into the same harsh poverty under which he had been raised. Regardless of Stalin's personal vision, all Communist states have proven themselves to be the most cruel of the systems of governance people invented.
Omg, was this book painful to read, despite the thriller elements. But worth it. I recommend it. I would like to rate it 4.
Let me begin by saying that this book has exceeded my expectations. Personally, I would say that it is a tad better than Gorky Park - an excellent book about a Soviet policeman.
The atmosphere of fear, desperation, tension, suspense has been used so effectively by the author. The start itself is so chilling - it is and we visit the village of Chervoy, Ukraine - then a part of the Soviet Union.
Lack of food has reduced humans to ea I would like to rate it 4. Lack of food has reduced humans to eating their pets and further degradation is portrayed when people try to eat earth.
In such a setting, two little boys- two brothers set out to hunt a cat while their mother waits for them at home. Then of course, something terrible happens.
Twenty years later we move to Moscow where a child's horrific murder is being brushed under the carpet by the Stalinist regime. Crime does not exist in the Soviet Union.
But, there is a big difference between Leo and the others — unlike Renko and March, Leo is a true believer in the state.
He is dedicated to his country and the cause espoused by the state. Leo will kill and die for it. The horrors of living under a totalitarian regime has been emphatically stressed throughout the book.
A mere slip of tongue, a silly joke, a mere suspicion is enough for a person to be executed or may be worse — be exiled to the Gulag. Torture and forced confessions are the accepted norms of interrogation.
All his beliefs, values, accomplishments go for a toss. He is demoted and sent off in the middle of nowhere. Though this is a serial killer novel, the state emerges as the bigger villain than the killer.
Leo risks his life as well as the lives of his loved ones in order to expose the killer. The risk is not from the killer but from the state itself as crime does not exist in Soviet Russia and people trying to prove so are Western agents- enemies of the glorious revolution.
Leo and his wife Raisa try to catch and punish the killer and are helped by a lot of kind-hearted people, some prisoners themselves while others are complete strangers — humble citizens of the USSR.
There are plenty of events and twists which would make you tense, afraid, excited etc. Do we really know and understand the people whom we love?
People try to forget things which make them uncomfortable. I loved the way the relationship between Leo and Raisa evolved.
The book, parts of the book at least were so faced paced that I did not realize how time went by.
I would recommend this book to all lovers of thrillers — but please keep in mind the book can be a bit depressing.
You have a cause you believe in, a cause worth dying for. Set with the backdrop of the Soviet Union and the Russian communists, this brutal story follows our main character, Leo, who works as a detective, chasing a real-life murderer which this story is based on.
The research that went into this story is pretty much flawless. The author managed to accurately convey the political turmoil of the country in the s, bringing the horror of the oppression and the injustice fully to life.
So much so, that it was painful to read at times. I personally wasn't aware of the history of the Soviet Union, so in that sense this book was extremely educational.
The injustice isn't new. You see this taking place on the daily, yet it was astounding to realise how disgustingly corrupt the political system was.
Everything was black and white. You were told one thing, and were ordered not to question it. The idea of the government being flawed was not something plausible.
There was the sense of utopia that they didn't allow to collapse. So, instead of the perpetrator being convicted of his or her crime, it was blamed on the West, possible Nazis regrouping, the mentally ill and homosexuals.
The truth was twisted, left to die and buried. So, it's a tale of Leo embarking on this journey of self-realisation of coming to terms with the crimes of his government and his loyalty to the state being tested.
It's an absolute gripping story, one that I loved from beginning to end! Jan 06, Michael rated it really liked it. This is an expertly rendered and well-executed thriller set in the Stalinist-era Soviet Union.
The plot machinations are done just right, and there is enough grim local color--including some harrowing scenes of starvation at the very beginning and the wonderfully iron-clad certainty among the Soviets that a serial killer would be impossible in their country--to lend heft to the proceedings.
It's a real page-turner for those who enjoy the cat-and-mouse guessing game of thrillers. There's evidence of a possible serial killer at large but one of the propaganda "truths" is that Russia is crime free.
Leo Demidov, a member of the powerful and feared MGB predecessor of the KGB , is sent to investigate one of the murders but is instructed to classify it as an accident.
It sets off a chain of events that will forever change the man and his life. I was mesmerized by this story as it offered a glimpse into an era I knew little about but is important as it provides insight into the probable foundation of current Russian culture.
Part mystery and part historical fiction, the storytelling aspect is outstanding. While Leo is the main character and most everything is seen through his point of view, that view transforms as everything he's believed in and been a part of begins to unravel as it turns on him.
To challenge any of the government positions often means certain death so Leo's change doesn't happen without consequence. The setting represents one of the most important in world history where millions of the so-called "enemies of the Soviet people" were imprisoned, exiled or executed.
I've known the facts of the era but this story provided more clarity of how a system designed to provide social and economic equality could go so horribly awry.
Leo is at times unsympathetic and at others heroic. The story has an emotional punch I hadn't expected and the narrator just nails everything.
I highly recommend listening to this book as it contributes to its authentic sense. Sep 07, Ms. To survive as a detective in s communist Russia, you have to put your country above all.
Anything less is tantamount to high treason. So when he refuses to denounce his own wife as a traitor, MGB detective Leo Demidov knows that they'll both be executed.
Stalin's sudden death however, grants them reprieve and an exile into the remote town of Voualsk, where they'll at least have one another.
But then his wife Raisa shocks him, by suddenly confessing that she had married Leo out of fear, and in fact hates him. A "routine" arrest in the case of a dead child, whose circumstances seem eerily familiar, gives Leo a new purpose.
He decides to find the actual culprit, and not just allow the militia to pin it on an unfortunate scapegoat. Having previously watched the movie , I was not expecting to like the book so much.
The basic story about a disgraced MGB agent hunting a serial child murderer remains the same, but life in the cut-throat world of communist Russia, as well as Leo's past view spoiler [ and as such his connection to the killer hide spoiler ] are missing.
I especially liked Leo's character development. In the movie, there is Tom Hardy who's running around and brooding handsomely, while the rest of the world is busy hating him.
In the book, we see Leo's life as a dedicated MGB agent, who would not hesitate to resort to drugs in order to keep doing his job, even when this comes with severe memory loss.
It was also quite fascinating to read about Leo's inner turmoil, when it came down to actually believing the communist propaganda that he enforces.
At times, it was almost heart-breaking to see him attempt to brainwash himself, by repeatedly memorizing communist slogans, when the methamphetamine-induced memory loss manifested itself.
And most of all, Leo's past is what left quite an impression on me. The chilling conclusion of this first chapter is, nevertheless, an excellent way of catching the reader's attention.
Admittedly, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information, when it comes to detailing life in s Russia, but the manner in which it is described is definitely effective.
I could barely put the book down, and even then I kept counting the hours I could pick it up again to continue. View all 5 comments. Child 44 is a novel that's hard to figure out where to place on the bookshelf.
It's a political thriller, a murder mystery and a horror story all in one. Combining those elements alone would have been enough, but first-time novelist Tom Rob Smith takes is further, setting his story around the time of the death of Stalin in the former Soviet Union.
Smith recreates the atmosphere of paranoia, doubt and suspicion of the time and place with ease, adding an extra layer of tension to his story.
On the Child 44 is a novel that's hard to figure out where to place on the bookshelf. On the surface, a story about someone serial killing small children would be brutal and horrifying enough.
But add in that under the Soviet system that the government was creating a worker's paradise in which crime can't and shouldn't exist and you get a further twist on the serial hunter genre.
If there is no crime, then surely such brutal crimes can't be occurring, adding to the complications as our hero, Leo, investigates the killings.
And it's not that Leo doesn't have more than a few obstacles in his way. He starts the novel as high-ranking official in the MGB, a rising star whose job it is to find all those who are oppose Mother Russia.
Along the way, he's had successes and has made enemies, including one who sets him up. Leo is forced to choose between betraying his wife, who is accused of being a spy, to save his own skin or siding with her.
Leo makes the choice and his entire world shatters. He's humilated publically, his family's status is removed and he finds out that his romantic notions of his marriage are an illusion.
Demoted and sent to a remote region as the lowest of the low in the police, Leo comes across evidence that an earlier crime he investigated may tie into killings in the region.
Leo risks everything to investigate the crime. Smith's novel is compelling and page-turning. Smith is an aspiring screen-writer and there are moments in the story that he paints scenes in a movie-like way.
But to dismiss the novel as one of those "ready to be adapted for a movie" would be a mistake. Smith's ability to re-create Russia in the time of Stalin is compelling as are the characters of Leo and his family.
There are horrors here and not just those committed by the serial killer. Leo is certainly no innocent victim and yet, you will find yourself rooting for him as the pages go on.
He's not the most likeable character when you first meet him. A great debut by Smith and I can see why this has already been optioned for a big-screen adaption.
But I will recommend that this is one of those cases where you will definitely want to read the book first.
My Rating: 4. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. Check on those we trust. I didn't really like the characters at the end of the book, they are likable but they all are certainly understandable and interesting.
Tom Rob Smith is de My Rating: 4. Tom Rob Smith is definitely a gifted writer who has a great way of telling his stories. It could be his non usage of quotation marks or the shifting narration, but it kept me guessing and hooked.
The way the story went up and down, with the sudden turns made me unable to put the book down. I am going to read the next two books in the trilogy and I hope they would be as good as this.
I would certainly recommend this book to everyone who loves thriller mystery novels with politics and philosophical and sociological traits. Thank you for reading this.
The hero police detective Leo Demidov desperately searches for a murderer who came to be known as the Rostov Ripper, found to have committed 52 murders of children up and down a railway line , all while Demidov operates one step ahead of the breath-quickening bear jaws of the KGB that seeks to enforce as truth the propagand Desperately Hunting Child Killer With Bear's Hot Breath on Da Bum 4.
The hero police detective Leo Demidov desperately searches for a murderer who came to be known as the Rostov Ripper, found to have committed 52 murders of children up and down a railway line , all while Demidov operates one step ahead of the breath-quickening bear jaws of the KGB that seeks to enforce as truth the propaganda that there are NO murders committed in a utopian communist society.
This is a well-written, brilliantly plotted police procedural, embodying the horrors of life for, and trying to save the lives of children by, the good guys under the awful, oppressive, murderous Stalin regime.
View 2 comments. Dec 06, Tania rated it it was amazing Recommended to Tania by: riaan. Shelves: best , historical-fiction , favorite-books.
For decades no one had taken action according to what they believed was right or wrong but by what they thought would please the leader. I thought this book was riveting.
I couldn't believe it was Tom Rob Smith 's debut novel.
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Ich hatte das Buch vor langer Zeit mal geliehen und es ist mir immer beeindruckend iin Erinnerung geblieben, daher habe ich es bestellt.
Auch relativ wertfrei werden die Begebenheiten beschrieben; einzig der Protagonist bekommt Zweifel am System. Und das ist die Geschichte neben der eigentlichen Geschichte.
Tolles Buch, lese ich gerne noch einmal. Mord und Verbrechen passen nicht in die heile Welt des Kommunismus. Leo Demidow gibt nicht auf. Wann hat das Grauen ein Ende?
Tom Rob Smith hat mit seinem Roman einen raffinierten, spannenden und tiefsinnigen Krimi vorgelegt. One person found this helpful.
Spannend bis zum Schluss. Trotzdem war man mitten im Geschehen,wusste wie die Personen und die Umgebung ausgesehen haben.
Einfach genial. Hier war kein Satz zu viel. Ich musste einige Pausen einlegen um das Gelesene erst mal setzen zu lassen. Allerdings konnte ich in den Lesepausen nicht wirklich abschalten.
Man braucht schon gute Nerven. Report abuse Translate review to English. Habe dieses Buch das zweite Mal gelesen. Damals hat es mich schon fasziniert.
Aber ich habe den etwas eigenen Schreibstil einfach weiter durchgearbeitet, bis es wieder wirklich spannend und fesselnd geworden ist. Das Ende hatte ich schon komplett vergessen und es hat mich wieder genauso fasziniert wie seinerzeit beim Buch bzw.
See all reviews. Stalin may have honestly believed in Communism, but he also was a psychopath, in my opinion. He twisted Marxist principles into something monstrous which seemed to satisfy a personal hunger for killing and torture more than about fixing inequality in society.
Looking at the results of Stalin's social reengineering in the Soviet Union, it was as if he wanted to recreate a society which mirrored the abused starved childhood he had had.
Stalin forced his countrymen into the same harsh poverty under which he had been raised. Regardless of Stalin's personal vision, all Communist states have proven themselves to be the most cruel of the systems of governance people invented.
Omg, was this book painful to read, despite the thriller elements. But worth it. I recommend it. I would like to rate it 4. Let me begin by saying that this book has exceeded my expectations.
Personally, I would say that it is a tad better than Gorky Park - an excellent book about a Soviet policeman.
The atmosphere of fear, desperation, tension, suspense has been used so effectively by the author. The start itself is so chilling - it is and we visit the village of Chervoy, Ukraine - then a part of the Soviet Union.
Lack of food has reduced humans to ea I would like to rate it 4. Lack of food has reduced humans to eating their pets and further degradation is portrayed when people try to eat earth.
In such a setting, two little boys- two brothers set out to hunt a cat while their mother waits for them at home.
Then of course, something terrible happens. Twenty years later we move to Moscow where a child's horrific murder is being brushed under the carpet by the Stalinist regime.
Crime does not exist in the Soviet Union. But, there is a big difference between Leo and the others — unlike Renko and March, Leo is a true believer in the state.
He is dedicated to his country and the cause espoused by the state. Leo will kill and die for it. The horrors of living under a totalitarian regime has been emphatically stressed throughout the book.
A mere slip of tongue, a silly joke, a mere suspicion is enough for a person to be executed or may be worse — be exiled to the Gulag. Torture and forced confessions are the accepted norms of interrogation.
All his beliefs, values, accomplishments go for a toss. He is demoted and sent off in the middle of nowhere. Though this is a serial killer novel, the state emerges as the bigger villain than the killer.
Leo risks his life as well as the lives of his loved ones in order to expose the killer. The risk is not from the killer but from the state itself as crime does not exist in Soviet Russia and people trying to prove so are Western agents- enemies of the glorious revolution.
Leo and his wife Raisa try to catch and punish the killer and are helped by a lot of kind-hearted people, some prisoners themselves while others are complete strangers — humble citizens of the USSR.
There are plenty of events and twists which would make you tense, afraid, excited etc. Do we really know and understand the people whom we love? People try to forget things which make them uncomfortable.
I loved the way the relationship between Leo and Raisa evolved. The book, parts of the book at least were so faced paced that I did not realize how time went by.
I would recommend this book to all lovers of thrillers — but please keep in mind the book can be a bit depressing.
You have a cause you believe in, a cause worth dying for. Set with the backdrop of the Soviet Union and the Russian communists, this brutal story follows our main character, Leo, who works as a detective, chasing a real-life murderer which this story is based on.
The research that went into this story is pretty much flawless. The author managed to accurately convey the political turmoil of the country in the s, bringing the horror of the oppression and the injustice fully to life.
So much so, that it was painful to read at times. I personally wasn't aware of the history of the Soviet Union, so in that sense this book was extremely educational.
The injustice isn't new. You see this taking place on the daily, yet it was astounding to realise how disgustingly corrupt the political system was.
Everything was black and white. You were told one thing, and were ordered not to question it. The idea of the government being flawed was not something plausible.
There was the sense of utopia that they didn't allow to collapse. So, instead of the perpetrator being convicted of his or her crime, it was blamed on the West, possible Nazis regrouping, the mentally ill and homosexuals.
The truth was twisted, left to die and buried. So, it's a tale of Leo embarking on this journey of self-realisation of coming to terms with the crimes of his government and his loyalty to the state being tested.
It's an absolute gripping story, one that I loved from beginning to end! Jan 06, Michael rated it really liked it. This is an expertly rendered and well-executed thriller set in the Stalinist-era Soviet Union.
The plot machinations are done just right, and there is enough grim local color--including some harrowing scenes of starvation at the very beginning and the wonderfully iron-clad certainty among the Soviets that a serial killer would be impossible in their country--to lend heft to the proceedings.
It's a real page-turner for those who enjoy the cat-and-mouse guessing game of thrillers. There's evidence of a possible serial killer at large but one of the propaganda "truths" is that Russia is crime free.
Leo Demidov, a member of the powerful and feared MGB predecessor of the KGB , is sent to investigate one of the murders but is instructed to classify it as an accident.
It sets off a chain of events that will forever change the man and his life. I was mesmerized by this story as it offered a glimpse into an era I knew little about but is important as it provides insight into the probable foundation of current Russian culture.
Part mystery and part historical fiction, the storytelling aspect is outstanding. While Leo is the main character and most everything is seen through his point of view, that view transforms as everything he's believed in and been a part of begins to unravel as it turns on him.
To challenge any of the government positions often means certain death so Leo's change doesn't happen without consequence. The setting represents one of the most important in world history where millions of the so-called "enemies of the Soviet people" were imprisoned, exiled or executed.
I've known the facts of the era but this story provided more clarity of how a system designed to provide social and economic equality could go so horribly awry.
Leo is at times unsympathetic and at others heroic. The story has an emotional punch I hadn't expected and the narrator just nails everything.
I highly recommend listening to this book as it contributes to its authentic sense. Sep 07, Ms. To survive as a detective in s communist Russia, you have to put your country above all.
Anything less is tantamount to high treason. So when he refuses to denounce his own wife as a traitor, MGB detective Leo Demidov knows that they'll both be executed.
Stalin's sudden death however, grants them reprieve and an exile into the remote town of Voualsk, where they'll at least have one another. But then his wife Raisa shocks him, by suddenly confessing that she had married Leo out of fear, and in fact hates him.
A "routine" arrest in the case of a dead child, whose circumstances seem eerily familiar, gives Leo a new purpose.
He decides to find the actual culprit, and not just allow the militia to pin it on an unfortunate scapegoat. Having previously watched the movie , I was not expecting to like the book so much.
The basic story about a disgraced MGB agent hunting a serial child murderer remains the same, but life in the cut-throat world of communist Russia, as well as Leo's past view spoiler [ and as such his connection to the killer hide spoiler ] are missing.
I especially liked Leo's character development. In the movie, there is Tom Hardy who's running around and brooding handsomely, while the rest of the world is busy hating him.
In the book, we see Leo's life as a dedicated MGB agent, who would not hesitate to resort to drugs in order to keep doing his job, even when this comes with severe memory loss.
It was also quite fascinating to read about Leo's inner turmoil, when it came down to actually believing the communist propaganda that he enforces.
At times, it was almost heart-breaking to see him attempt to brainwash himself, by repeatedly memorizing communist slogans, when the methamphetamine-induced memory loss manifested itself.
And most of all, Leo's past is what left quite an impression on me. The chilling conclusion of this first chapter is, nevertheless, an excellent way of catching the reader's attention.
Admittedly, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information, when it comes to detailing life in s Russia, but the manner in which it is described is definitely effective.
I could barely put the book down, and even then I kept counting the hours I could pick it up again to continue. View all 5 comments.
Child 44 is a novel that's hard to figure out where to place on the bookshelf. It's a political thriller, a murder mystery and a horror story all in one.
Combining those elements alone would have been enough, but first-time novelist Tom Rob Smith takes is further, setting his story around the time of the death of Stalin in the former Soviet Union.
Smith recreates the atmosphere of paranoia, doubt and suspicion of the time and place with ease, adding an extra layer of tension to his story.
On the Child 44 is a novel that's hard to figure out where to place on the bookshelf. On the surface, a story about someone serial killing small children would be brutal and horrifying enough.
But add in that under the Soviet system that the government was creating a worker's paradise in which crime can't and shouldn't exist and you get a further twist on the serial hunter genre.
If there is no crime, then surely such brutal crimes can't be occurring, adding to the complications as our hero, Leo, investigates the killings. And it's not that Leo doesn't have more than a few obstacles in his way.
He starts the novel as high-ranking official in the MGB, a rising star whose job it is to find all those who are oppose Mother Russia.
Along the way, he's had successes and has made enemies, including one who sets him up. Leo is forced to choose between betraying his wife, who is accused of being a spy, to save his own skin or siding with her.
Leo makes the choice and his entire world shatters. He's humilated publically, his family's status is removed and he finds out that his romantic notions of his marriage are an illusion.
Demoted and sent to a remote region as the lowest of the low in the police, Leo comes across evidence that an earlier crime he investigated may tie into killings in the region.
Leo risks everything to investigate the crime. Smith's novel is compelling and page-turning. Smith is an aspiring screen-writer and there are moments in the story that he paints scenes in a movie-like way.
But to dismiss the novel as one of those "ready to be adapted for a movie" would be a mistake. Smith's ability to re-create Russia in the time of Stalin is compelling as are the characters of Leo and his family.
There are horrors here and not just those committed by the serial killer. Leo is certainly no innocent victim and yet, you will find yourself rooting for him as the pages go on.
He's not the most likeable character when you first meet him. A great debut by Smith and I can see why this has already been optioned for a big-screen adaption.
But I will recommend that this is one of those cases where you will definitely want to read the book first.
My Rating: 4. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. Check on those we trust. I didn't really like the characters at the end of the book, they are likable but they all are certainly understandable and interesting.
Tom Rob Smith is de My Rating: 4. Tom Rob Smith is definitely a gifted writer who has a great way of telling his stories. It could be his non usage of quotation marks or the shifting narration, but it kept me guessing and hooked.
The way the story went up and down, with the sudden turns made me unable to put the book down. I am going to read the next two books in the trilogy and I hope they would be as good as this.
I would certainly recommend this book to everyone who loves thriller mystery novels with politics and philosophical and sociological traits.
Thank you for reading this. The hero police detective Leo Demidov desperately searches for a murderer who came to be known as the Rostov Ripper, found to have committed 52 murders of children up and down a railway line , all while Demidov operates one step ahead of the breath-quickening bear jaws of the KGB that seeks to enforce as truth the propagand Desperately Hunting Child Killer With Bear's Hot Breath on Da Bum 4.
The hero police detective Leo Demidov desperately searches for a murderer who came to be known as the Rostov Ripper, found to have committed 52 murders of children up and down a railway line , all while Demidov operates one step ahead of the breath-quickening bear jaws of the KGB that seeks to enforce as truth the propaganda that there are NO murders committed in a utopian communist society.
This is a well-written, brilliantly plotted police procedural, embodying the horrors of life for, and trying to save the lives of children by, the good guys under the awful, oppressive, murderous Stalin regime.
View 2 comments. Dec 06, Tania rated it it was amazing Recommended to Tania by: riaan. Shelves: best , historical-fiction , favorite-books.
For decades no one had taken action according to what they believed was right or wrong but by what they thought would please the leader. I thought this book was riveting.
I couldn't believe it was Tom Rob Smith 's debut novel. I especially appreciated how the he combined two genre's historical fiction and mystery seamlessly.
He painted such an incredibly vivid picture of Stalin's Soviet Union in the 's you could really feel the terror, fear and cruelty of a whole country.
Friends and family d For decades no one had taken action according to what they believed was right or wrong but by what they thought would please the leader.
Friends and family denounced each other, to deflect any unwelcome attention from themselves. Once you fell under suspicion, there was no turning back.
The government functioned on a presumption of guilt. As the author so aptly says - The headquarters of the MGB was an assembly line of guilt.
Another change for me in Child 44 was that the protagonist was an MGB agent. The author even delves into the various motivations why different people would fulfill these brutal roles.
Was the difference merely that Vasili was senselessly cruel while he'd been idealistically cruel? One was an empty, indifferent cruelty while the other was a principles, pretentious cruelty which thought of itself as reasonable and necessary.
But in real terms, in destructive terms, there was little to separate the two men. All of the above is just the background for the mystery element of the novel.
As the state decreed that there was no crime, this was the ideal environment for a murderer. The story itself is loosely based on the serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo.
It is fast-paced and shocking, I found myself gasping out loud quite a few times. Some of the scenes are very upsetting and this is not for sensitive readers.
My only negative is that the ending was a bit too well wrapped up. The Story: Officer Leo Demidov, an idealistic war hero, believes he's building a perfect society.
But after witnessing the interrogation of an innocent man, his loyalty begins to waver, and when ordered to investigate his own wife Leo is forced to choose where his heart truly lies.
He must risk everything to find a criminal that the State won't admit even exists. On the run, Leo soon discovers the danger isn't from the killer he is trying to catch, but from the country he is trying to protect.
View all 7 comments. Jan 22, Bettie rated it liked it Shelves: published , spring , decfree-for-all , lifestyles-deathstyles , mystery-thriller , series , fraudio , debut , winter , ukraine.
Read by Dennis Boutsikaris Excellent mid three. Source View all 6 comments. It did not disappoint. A page turner perfect for a couple of cold rainy days with nothing interesting on TV.
First of a trilogy that did not leave the reader hanging. It did not have quite the punch of I Am Pilgrim which I read earlier in the year, but it was not as far fetched either, more authentic with great pacing.
This is not Mission Impossible whatever with guys impossibly hanging off of skyscrapers. Additionally, I was able to drink my wine and follow along with no problem keeping the story straight or character mix-ups.
A straight forward GoodRead. View all 8 comments. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
This one has been on my list for ages. I counted this as a good thing as I really like to know as little as possible about a book before I launch into it.
It opens with a scene in which a young boy is captured by a man and dragged away to an unknown fate, this during a time of famine. Then, without any further ref This one has been on my list for ages.
Then, without any further reference to this scene the narrative jumps forward twenty years. His role is to root out anyone suspected of questioning the Soviet regime.
This behaviour would not be tolerated and that's ok with Leo — an ex-soldier — who is nothing if not patriotic.
Leo is sent to the home of a colleague whose son has been killed. But the vet has now gone on the run and Leo must track him down or face the serious consequences of not arresting him when he had the chance.
There is a point in this book at which Leo starts to have doubts about the the actions of the state and this coincides with a conviction that maybe the death of his colleague's son was murder after all.
Besides, here only political-thought crimes matter. Will he be able to sort out this tangled assemblage of challenges and come out smiling? Set primarily in the months just before and shortly after the death of Stalin, this book really does throw the door open on the political and social issues of the time.
If I have a minor criticism it would be that the ending, tying up all the loose threads, is just too neat and tidy — very Hollywood.
But that aside I do believe that this is a great story which, for the most part, is very well told indeed. Jun 08, Mish rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , thriller , , favourite , crime , own.
The body of a little boy was discovered along the railway tracks in th city of Moscow, violently mutilated. And as a result, he was demoted and sent off to work with the Militia in an industrial village called Voualsk where another body of a child was found.
Without a The body of a little boy was discovered along the railway tracks in th city of Moscow, violently mutilated. Leo is starting to think otherwise.
There were too many similarities between in the 2 deaths to be a one off incident; the manner in which body was discovered were the same, including the injuries suffered.
With the help of his wife and a few locals in connecting villages, Leo conducts his own investigation. And what he finds is more horrific then he imagined!
A total of 44 deaths - all children, dumped along the railway track, stripped, cut, and laid out And total of 44 crimes covered up by their own government.
The crime in Child 44 is not the sole highlight in this book. The reader gets extensive insight into lives of Russians during this era; struggling to survive under the strict and unforgiving rules, and the lack of adequate housing and basic infrastructure.
Paranoid that their own family, friends or neighbours can turn against them in a split second to save their own back from government threats and bullying.
Fear to even speak in public or to be noticed, as anything they say or do could be misinterpreted as a comment or behaviour against Stalin.
Leo Demidov is such an interesting, strong character. Not your average likable hero to begin with. He starts out as an officer who's responsible for the deaths of many innocent victims, and destroyed equally as many families along the way, because of his dedication and trust in the Stalin way.
He did somewhat redeem himself as the story progress. I really liked witnessing this unexpected change in manner, and the growing relationship between Leo and his wife.
I wanted to read this book so desperately before I saw movie adaption. And what a book it is! The plot was purely engrossing, suspenseful and brutally violent at times by the nature of the killings.
A sense of danger and darkness looms heavily over this book as Leo and his wife risk their lives from sheer determination to catch the killer, while being watched and on the run from MGB.
The wet, icy cold backdrop, merged with tension, drama, love and corruption. It really does have all. Leo und Raisa werden gemeinsam in die sowjetische Provinz nach Wualsk verbannt, einer um ein Wolga -Werk entstandenen Industriestadt, wo der degradierte Leo zur Miliz versetzt wird.
Auf der Fahrt erfährt er, dass Raisa ihn belogen hat. Sie wagte es nicht, die Avancen des einflussreichen MGB-Offiziers auszuschlagen, hasste ihn aber all die Ehejahre hindurch ebenso wie seine skrupellose Pflichterfüllung.
Nach dieser Eröffnung scheint die Ehe zerrüttet, doch in den folgenden Wochen können die aufeinander angewiesenen Eheleute sich zum ersten Mal als gleichrangige Partner begegnen und so eine neue Beziehung aufbauen.
Auch die Arbeit weckt in Leo ein ungeahntes Interesse, als in Wualsk die Leiche eines jungen Mädchens aufgefunden wird, die an den Moskauer Kindermord erinnert.
Leos Vorgesetzter General Nesterow versucht, die Tat einem geisteskranken Jungen unterzuschieben, und als ein zweiter Toter, dieses Mal ein Junge, aufgefunden wird, konzentriert er die Ermittlungen auf das in der Sowjetunion nicht minder rechtlose Milieu der Homosexuellen.
Leo gelingt es, das Vertrauen des Generals zu gewinnen und mit ihm gemeinsam heimliche Nachforschungen aufzunehmen.
Sie decken auf, dass in den vergangenen Monaten zahlreiche Kinderleichen in der Nähe von Eisenbahnverbindungen aufgefunden wurden, die alle denselben Modus Operandi aufweisen.
Doch ein Serienmörder ist auch in der post-stalinistischen Sowjetunion undenkbar, und so wurden alle Fälle gesellschaftlichen Randgruppen untergeschoben, um die Kriminalstatistik zu schönen.
Auf dem Transport in ein Arbeitslager gelingt ihm gemeinsam mit Raisa die Flucht. Noch immer beseelt davon, den Kindermörder zur Strecke zu bringen, begeben sie sich nach Rostow am Don , dem Tatort der meisten Morde.
Die einzige Verbindung nach Wualsk scheint in der Handelsbeziehung zwischen dem Wolgawerk und Rostselmasch zu liegen.
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