This author writes under a pseudonym. Their works are characterized by a deep exploration of the human psyche and complex interpersonal relationships. With masterful prose and a keen insight into human nature, they draw readers into their narratives. Their writing often delves into the darker aspects of existence and moral dilemmas.
Exploring the concept of Soundin' Canaan, the book delves into the role of music and poetry in the Black migration to Canada, highlighting how these art forms serve as means of border-crossing that challenge traditional notions of citizenship. It emphasizes the significance of music in Black Canadian poetry as a powerful vehicle for social, ethical, and political expression, offering a nuanced understanding of identity and belonging within the context of migration.
‘See America by Greyhound’ was Paul Watkins’ magic ticket to 35 US States. In the company of his four-legged friend, the spirit of the Founding Fathers urged him on through famous cities and landscapes and memorable encounters including the Alamo and Hollywood visions of Daniel Boone, Washington’s gay revolution and a stand-off with a jungle cat in a blacked-out New York apartment.
April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket. This device, known only by the codename Diamondstream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. When a radio message sent to Hitler's headquarters, heralding the success of Diamondstream, is intercepted by an English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device. Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the Red Army swarms through its streets, British Special Operations turns to the Kremlin for help. They ask for one man in particular - Inspector Pekkala
In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched in the hands of a skeleton priest, they find The Shepherd; a priceless icon thought to have been destroyed long ago. When news of its discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, once a favorite of Tsar and known to all of Russia as The Emerald Eye. 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. Or so it was believed. As Pekkala soon learns, the last survivors of this brutal sect have clung to life in the shadowy forests of Siberia. With the reappearance of the icon, they have returned to claim the treasure they say belongs to them alone, bringing with them a new and terrible weapon to unleash upon the Russian people. Unless the Emerald Eye can stop them.
Sam Eastland returns to Stalin's Russia in another electrifying Inspector Pekkala thriller.
As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth.
As this gripping action thriller opens it is the summer of 1941 and Russia has been invaded.
Na de Russische Revolutie raakt inspecteur Pekkala, ooit de rechterhand van de tsaar, in ongenade. Hij wordt gevangengehouden in een goelag in het Siberische woud. Maar dan blijkt dat zijn kwaliteiten onmiskenbaar zijn: Pekkala krijgt van Stalin de opdracht de moordenaar van de Romanovs te vinden. Deze missie brengt Pekkala, en zijn broer Anton die hij al jaren niet heeft gezien, weer bij elkaar. De lichamen van de Romanovs worden gevonden, op één na. Terwijl flashbacks onthullen wat zich in het verleden tussen beide broers heeft afgespeeld, ontvouwt zich in het heden een huiveringwekkend mysterie. De getuigen die kunnen helpen de moordenaar van de Romanovs te vinden - en het antwoord op de vraag of de laatste Romanov wellicht ontsnapt is - worden een voor een vermoord.
SEPTEMBER 1939. THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death. Stalin summons Pekkala to the Kremlin and orders him to solve the murder. To accomplish his mission, he must return to Borodok, the notorious Gulag where he himself spent many years as a prisoner. There, he must pose as a inmate in order to unravel the mystery . . . As he returns to the nightmares of his past, is this a mission too far for the great Pekkala?
Inspector Pekkala returns to find himself enlisted by Stalin to investigate the death of one of the Soviet Union's top military engineers. However, finding the truth in the Soviet Union is never easy.
