A blockbuster thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War.
His thriller Finisterre, set in 1944, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize..
Two of the critically lauded series have been shortlisted for the Theakston\'s Old Peculier Award for Best Crime Novel.
About author(s): Graham Hurley is the author of the acclaimed Faraday and Winter crime novels and an award-winning TV documentary maker.
As the local saying has it: life is dangerous - no one survives it.
As the noose tightens, Bella finds herself trapped, hunted by both the Russians and the Germans.
With the fall of the city inevitable, the Soviets plan a bloody war of terror that will extort a higher toll on the city\'s inhabitants than the invaders.
Amid his cadre of trusted personnel is British defector Bella Menzies, once with MI5, now with the NKVD.
Surrounded by Panzers, bombed and shelled day and night, Soviet Commissar Nikita Krushchev was amongst the senior Soviet officials co-ordinating the defence.
Within six weeks, the city was under siege.
Kyiv was the biggest city to stand in their way.
The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields beyond.
TIM SEBASTIAN On Sunday 22nd June, 1941, at 03.05, three and a half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800 mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa.
Raw, shocking and meticulously researched.
A searing portrait of the Nazi elite as the war turns against them.
A blockbuster thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War
