The Beast in the Red Forest
By (Author) Sam Eastland
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
25th February 2015
1st January 2015
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
336
Width 131mm, Height 200mm, Spine 21mm
270g
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.
On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders.
Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap.
A new enemy has emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before. Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature, said to roam the landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala's disappearance.
Meanwhile, Pekkala's nemesis is also closing in for the kill.
Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective.Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin and Siberian Red.