When the American translator for a dissident Soviet poet now living in New York--who is really a KGB agent--discovers the formula for Stolat, a chemical that increases the life span, created by the Soviets and smuggled to the West, an intense power s...
In a novel that combines the suspense of a thriller with the accuracy of a work of history, the psychology of a monster is revealed, every aspect of his madness explored and every twist of his homicidal logic followed to its conclusion....
"People who don't have secrets imagine them as dark and hidden. It's just the opposite. Secrets are bright. They light you up. Like the bare lightbulb left on in a cell day and night, they give you no rest." So thinks Joop, the narrator of this brie...