Shadow Pass

Pekkala: He was the Romanovs’ most trusted investigator. Now he’s Stalin’s greatest fear.   He operates in the shadows of one of history’s most notorious regimes. He seeks the truth in a nation where finding it can mean death€”or worse. His name his Inspector Pekkala, and this time he’s taking on a case with implications far deadlier than anything he can imagine: a shattering revelation that was never meant to be unearthed. Its official name is T-34, and this massive and mysterious new weapon is being developed in total secrecy in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine. Its inventor, Colonel Rolan Nagorski, is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent. And Josef Stalin is no innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, he brings in his best€”if least obedient€”detective to solve a murder that’s tantamount to treason. Answerable to no one, Pekkala has th