The secret speech / Smith, Tom Rob

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.

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.