To unravel the secret of the icon's past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals known as The Skoptsy, who were hunted to extinction years by the Bolshevik Secret Police.
In 1944, as the German Army crumbles before the unstoppable forces, two Russian soldiers find a priceless icon in the crypt of a German church... For fans of Phillip Kerr and Robert Harris.