Leo witnesses the brutality of the secret police, he is part of its brutality and he turns his back on it. His novels in the Child 44 trilogy were New York Times bestsellers and international publishing sensations.

But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious. Tom Rob Smith was born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and he was brought up in south London. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.The first book was amazing and left me wanting more but the 2nd and 3rd were more disappointing, especially the third. it describes two brothers who are trying to catch a stray cat and smith is able to narrate the story in a unique way which will catch even the people who are used to reading thriller novels with a surprise. In pursuit of a Russian Ripper: Tom Rob Smith tells how his tale of a Russian mass murderer sparked a furious bidding war".

To save his family, Leo must make a desperate choice and face an impossible journey that may bring his redemption…or shatter their fragile future. In addition to highlighting the problem of Soviet-era crime in a state where "there is no crime", the novel explores the paranoia of the age, the education system, the secret police apparatus, orphanages, homosexuality in the USSR and mental hospitals. A rising, prominent officer in the State Security force, Leo is a former war hero whose only ambition is to serve his country. Chikatilo was convicted of and executed for committing 52 murders in the Soviet Union, though his crimes occurred after the Stalin era.Hopes were high for the final volume in the trilogy – and here is Agent 6, the final outing for Leo. With his new and secretive homicide department, Leo Demidov investigates--only to find that he, his wife, and his two adopted daughters may be in grave danger. Together, they convince Nesterov and his wife, Inessa, that the deaths must be investigated as serial murders. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.