January 1917With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution Sandro Ruzskythe citys chief police investigator returns from exile in Siberia only to beassigned a g... » 

January 1917With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution Sandro Ruzskythe citys chief police investigator returns from exile in Siberia only to beassigned a grisly case the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of thefrozen River Neva just outside the Tsars Winter Palace. Ruzskysinvestigation leads him dangerously close to the royal family and to the womanhe loves and he finds himself confronting both a ruthless killer and theghosts of his past as he fights desperately to save all that he cares for. Withmeticulous research and narrative skill Tom Bradby brilliantly recreatesthe gilded salons and squalid tenements of St. Petersburg in the last days ofthe tsars. Evocative and thrilling The White Russian is a tumultuous storyof murder and betrayal in a city at the crossroads of history. «