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    The Twelfth Department

    Written by William Ryan

    Narrated by Gildart Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. But for the first time in a long time, Korolev is about to be truly happy: his son Yuri is coming to visit for an entire week. Shortly after Yuri’s arrival, however, Korolev receives an urgent call from his boss - it seems an important man has been murdered, and Korolev is the only detective they’re willing to assign to this sensitive case. And the consequences of interfering with a case tied to State Security or the NKVD can be severe. Korolev is suddenly faced with much more than just discovering a murderer’s identity; he must decide how far he’ll go to see justice served... and what he’s willing to do to protect his family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJul 9, 2013
    ISBN9781624065460
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    The Twelfth Department
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    William Ryan

    William Ryan is the author of five novels, including the Captain Korolev series which have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year. His latest books are A House of Ghosts (2018). William teaches on the Crime Writing Masters at City University in London and the Writers & Artists 'Your Novel' writing course.

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      This is the third novel featuring Moscow CID man Alexei Korolev - an honest man trying to do his job investigating crime at the height of Stalin's Great Terror in 1937. Like its predecessors, this creates very well the atmosphere of oppression and the banality of arbitrary terror in a totalitarian society where even total loyalty to Stalin and the Party line might not be enough to survive. The plot again contains a heady mixture of elements, murder, faction fighting within the state security organs, secret experimentation and a direct threat to Korolev's own twelve year old son, Yuri. There is an eclectic mix of characters and I quite enjoy these novels, though somehow I always have an inchoate feeling that the various plot elements don't hang together as well as they might. One more specific sad reflection that struck me was when Yuri tells his dad that in his school: "Some of the kids’ folks have no books at all – they’re the lucky ones", i.e. because this means their parents are safer from the threat of arbitrary arrest for owning banned literature.