Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.
- ISBN10 1306762634
- ISBN13 9781306762632
- Publish Date 1 January 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Orbit
- Format eBook
- Language English