Once the Tsar's favorite, Inspector Pekkala now rots away in the Siberian gulags. But Stalin offers him a reprieve. His mission: find the men who killed the Tsar and his family, and locate the Tsar's treasure. Success means freedom, and the chance to reunite with the woman he once loved. The price of failure? Death. Set against the backdrop of the paranoid and brutal country that Russia became under Stalin. "Eastland's debut is a gem of a historical mystery, and narrator Paul Michael does it full justice."—AudioFile