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Child 44 (2008)Read about the other books on Penzler's list.
by Tom Rob Smith
Gorky Park meets 1984. The novel, loosely based on a true story, is set in the Russia of Joseph Stalin and follows a government agent investigating a serial killer who is protected by the Communist Party’s official policy: There was no crime in the Soviet Union.
The Page 69 Test: Child 44.
--Marshal Zeringue