The Moscow Code: A Foreign Affairs Mystery (A Foreign Affairs Mystery, #2)

by Nick Wilkshire

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In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity.



Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't long before he's thrust into a fresh case - a technical writer from Toronto in a Moscow jail on dubious drug charges. Charlie has barely put a dent in the brick wall that is the Russian legal system when the jailed man turns up dead, the official explanation: suicide. And just when evidence to the contrary is discovered, the body is "accidentally" cremated by the authorities.



Undeterred by bureaucratic stonewalling and determined to help the victim's sister get to the bottom of her brother's death, Charlie follows the sparse clues available. But what he uncovers brings them both far too close to powers more dangerous than they could have imagined. Suddenly, getting at the truth is less important than getting out of Russia in one piece.
  • ISBN10 1459737156
  • ISBN13 9781459737150
  • Publish Date 11 November 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Dundurn Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 296
  • Language English