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THE LAST NOVEL IN BORIS AKUNIN'S ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIESAfter the cliffhanger finale of Black City, Fandorin is back for one final adventure: will he survive the new order in post-Revolution Russia?

THE LATEST NOVEL IN BORIS AKUNIN'S ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIESAn action-packed mystery in which the stakes are far higher than ever before: can Fandorin capture a renowned criminal, save the Russian Empire and avoid a global war?

Erast Fandorin - 'A popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James Bond [THE TIMES]' - returns in the penultimate instalment of the hugely popular historical mystery series, which began with the 100,000-copy-selling THE WINTER QUEEN.

The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship captain, fights for a woman, exposes double agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.

An epic finale to the series, featuring Fandorin's battle against Ninjas and terrorists aboard the Trans-Siberian Express!

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her.

Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.

There's been rising consternation in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. A newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon. When a young woman, Masha Mironova, becomes embroiled in the society, and Zhemalio dies a mysterious death, Fandorin must act.

Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, accompanied by three of his children and their alluring governess, Mademoiselle Declique. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his oriental sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when they realise that four-year old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion. A ransom letter arrives from Dr Lind, an international criminal and the Moriarty to Fandorin's Sherlock Holmes. The letter demands the handover of the Count Orlov, an enormous diamond on the royal sceptre which is due to play a part in the coronation. Fandorin suggests that the value of the stone is paid in 'installments', buying the party a week to ensure the young boy's safe return. But can the gentleman detective find Mikhail in time, or will the Grand Duke's son meet with the same gruesome fate as Lind's last abductee - whom Fandorin could do nothing to save? Will Fandorin succumb to the affections of Xenia? And why is he falling to his death on the very first page? Our inimitable hero returns in a tantalisingly closely-matched battle of wills and of wiles.

The next caper in the Sister Pelagia mystery from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.