Smith, Tom Rob

Leo Demidov, an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force in Stalin's Soviet Union, finds himself demoted and on the run for suggesting the presence of a murderer in the insisted idealistic Moscow.

After learning his mother was committed to a mental hospital, Daniel receives a call from her, claiming that his lying father is part of a crime conspiracy.

After the wife and daughters of Leo Demidov, a former member of Moscow's secret police, are killed while on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he watches helplessly from the other side of the world as the tragic event unfolds. Leo sets out on a quest to find out exactly what really happened that fateful night in New York even if it takes decades to get the answer from the one man who knows the truth.

A former member of Russia's secret police must stay behind when his wife and two daughters travel to New York and become involved in a political conspiracy that turns tragic.

Honored as a hero for his role in stopping a serial killer three years earlier, post-Stalinist Soviet MGB officer Leo Demidov is placed at the head of a newly formed Moscow homicide department and is forced to undertake a mission in the criminal underworld.

Leo Demidov, an officer of the MGB, the State Security Force in Stalin's Soviet Union, finds himself demoted and on the run for suggesting the presence of a murderer in the insisted idealistic Moscow.

In 1956, after the death of Stalin, a secret letter composed by Khrushchev is sent throughout the nation, promising change for the Soviet Union while Leo Demidov, working as a homicide detective, becomes a target of vengeance due to his past career as an MGB officer.