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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- 2 February 1945
- 2 August 1914
- 1 June 1915
- 5 June 1915
- 6 June 1915
- 5 July 1915
- 2 February 1945
- 9 February 1945
- 10 February 1945
- 2 January 1922
- As the Emka ...
- 25 February 1945
- 15 May 1944
- 28 February 1945
- 8 March 1945
- 16 May 1944
- 8 March 1945
- 11 March 1945
- 12 March 1945
- 17 June 1921
- Returning to the office ...
- 2 January 1922
- Back in the office ...
- One morning in ...
- 18 March 1945
- 24 March 1945
- 26 March 1945
- 28 March 1945
- 23 April 1945
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Also by Sam Eastland
- Copyright
