Moskva
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  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405921725
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99

Moskva

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Paperback
3 Jan 2017
EBook
3 Jan 2017
Audiobook
5 May 2016
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Seven meets Deutschland 83 in this outstanding serial killer thriller for fans of Gorky Park or Child 44

Christmas Eve 1985. The shaved, blood drained body of a young man is found in Red Square; frozen solid - like marble to the touch - missing the little finger from his right hand.

A week later, Alex Marston, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer, Tom Fox, posted to Moscow following the death of his own daughter, is asked to help find her.

But as Fox's investigation drags him deeper towards the dark heart of Soviet establishment, his fears for Alex's safety grow as it looks like she could become a sadistic killer's next victim.
  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405921725
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Moskva

Even better than Child 44

Telegraph

Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow already exists (Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park), Jack Grimwood's Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it's one that comes off . . .

Sunday Times

Tom Fox is well drawn, the action scenes are filled with energy and tension, but the real hero of Moskva is Russia itself, bleak, corrupt, falling apart, but with an incurable humanity

Tom Callaghan

A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist

Michael Marshall

A first-rate thriller - Moskva grips from the very first page. Heartily recommended

William Ryan

Hard to know what to praise first here: the operatic sweep of this mesmerising novel; the surefooted orchestration of tension; or the vividly realised sense of time and place; all of these factors mark Jack Grimwood's Moskva out as something special in the arena of international thrillers

Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

Like the city herself, Jack Grimwood's Moskva is richly layered, stylish, beautifully constructed, and full of passion beneath the chills. Part political thriller, part historical novel, part a story of personal redemptions, Moskva cements Jack Grimwood as a powerful new voice in thriller writing. Not to be missed.

Sarah Pinborough

Memorable characters, powerful recreations of history and an unrelenting pace that will keep you breathless. A striking début in the genre.

Maxim Jakubowski

A sublime writer . . . I felt glimmers of Le Carré shining through the prose.

CrimeSquad

If you love thrillers Jack Grimwood is the name you need to remember...

Viv Groskop, BBC Radio 2, Sara Cox Show
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