Child 44 Simon Lelic Behind the plans for peace

Behind the plans for peace lies the shadow of war and the fear that a dead king might live again

bringing with it an age of terror and violence

This is the fourth story about Juliet Buckingham

Samuel Spendlove

None of which should be a problem

Child 44 Simon Lelic Behind the plans for peaceMGB 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