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A society trying to recover from a time when the police were corrupt and the innocent arrested as criminals. From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest, The Secret Speech is a breathtaking, epic novel that confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors writing today. Yet beyond historical and biographical chronology, the books within a fiction trilogy must reflect upon each other in some way. Detective Leo Demidov, former Secret Police Officer, is forced to ask whether the wrongs of the past can ever be forgiven.

Sort of seemed they needed to finish up the movie and just rushed it at the end like they lost track of time.Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one the all-powerful state. Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy. Leo cleverly tells the MGB agents who arrive that the serial killer killed Vassili and that he then shot the killer. Once again detective Leo Demidov comes up against political obstacles in his attempt to solve the most important case in his life.

In [the] first two volumes, Smith brilliantly illuminated the horrors of Stalin's Russia and the Gulag. From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest, THE SECRET SPEECH is a breathtaking, epic novel that confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors writing today. Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film 2 stars out of 5 and reported that "Tom Rob Smith's page-turning bestseller from 2008 has been turned into a heavy, indigestible meal of a film, full of actors speaking English with very heavy Russian accents – actors from England, Sweden, Lebanon, Poland, Australia, almost anywhere but Russia". But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.With his new and secretive homicide department, Leo Demidov investigates'only to find that he, his wife, and his two adopted daughters may be in grave danger. The novel is exquisitely and wonderfully plotted and most the most amazing side of it is that it is fearfully narrated. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. More child murder victims are discovered in Volsk and after Leo tells Raisa that he suspects this to be the work of a serial killer, she decides to help his investigation. The curtain may have fallen on this particular dark tale, but it has been well and truly raised on a new talent who looks set to be entertaining and moving us for many decades to come.