mass market paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published Nov. 27, 2007 by Ballantine Books.
mass market paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published Nov. 27, 2007 by Ballantine Books.
After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the tsar, who will be chosen from among the distant relatives of Nicholas II. Asked to perform a background check on one of the candidates, Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord is honored to be part of such a momentous event. But once in Moscow, he is nearly killed by gunmen on a city plaza. Suddenly Miles is racing across continents, his only guide a cryptic utterance of Rasputin's implying that the infamous 1918 massacre of the Romanov family was not the last chapter in their story. The prophecy's implications are earth-shattering--not only for the future of the tsar and mother Russia, but also for Miles himself.
After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the tsar, who will be chosen from among the distant relatives of Nicholas II. Asked to perform a background check on one of the candidates, Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord is honored to be part of such a momentous event. But once in Moscow, he is nearly killed by gunmen on a city plaza. Suddenly Miles is racing across continents, his only guide a cryptic utterance of Rasputin's implying that the infamous 1918 massacre of the Romanov family was not the last chapter in their story. The prophecy's implications are earth-shattering--not only for the future of the tsar and mother Russia, but also for Miles himself.