Secret Speech

Follow-up to his Booker-longlisted debut "Child 44". After Stalin's death, the violent regime is beginning to fracture. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own problems: his adopted daughters are yet to forgive him for murdering their parents, and his whole family is under threat from someone with a grudge. In order to protect his family, he journeys from the Siberian Gulags to the depths of the criminal underworld and the Hungarian uprising. 'Tom Rob Smith is patently a talented writer with a rich and complex period to explore' "Observer"