EYE OF THE RED TSAR

Book ID/图书代码： 04560009B32790

English Summary/英文概要： It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.

Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar’s treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom and the chance to re-unite with a woman he would have married if the Revolution had not torn them apart. The price of failure - death.

Set against the backdrop of the paranoid and brutal country that Russia became under the rule of Stalin, Eye of the Red Tsar introduces a compelling new figure to readers of crime fiction

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事背景：
困擾俄國人數十年的歷史謎團：
1917年，俄國掀起革命浪潮，羅曼洛夫王朝最後一最後一任沙皇尼古拉二世被迫退位。此後，尼古拉二世與家屬被捕，尼古拉二世並於一年後在葉卡捷琳堡被處決。然而沙皇唯一的兒子、沙皇繼承人阿列克謝和沙皇的一個女兒的遺骸至今下落不明，這也成為上世紀俄國最大的懸案。

中文簡介
本書將把讀者帶入史達林式恐怖的中心，緊湊的推理手法將使讀者欲罷不能！
本書背景為1930年代「大清洗」時期〈Great Terror〉，此期間史達林進行政治鎮壓與迫害，肅洗對象包括對共產黨內部與對無辜人員的迫害。這段時期典型的現象包括無處不在的政治審查、到處都存在的「間諜破壞」、做秀公審、關押和死刑。
別名翡翠之眼〈Emerald Eye〉的佩卡拉〈 Pekkala〉，過去曾是全俄國最知名的偵探，更是尼古拉二世的手下愛將，但仍逃不過被送往西伯利亞的古拉格〈Gulags〉集中營的下場，一直到十年後忽然被稱作「紅色沙皇」的史達林任命調查一樁罪案…
另ㄧ方面，在一座牆壁下發現了一組骨骸，這組骨骸是否屬於遭到謀殺的沙皇家人？只有佩卡拉與這個家庭關係最密切，也只有他可以分辨這些骨骼是不是屬於羅曼洛夫家族。
但當佩卡拉開始進行調查，他發現屍體數目少於預期…這項發現直指一個驚人的可能性…
佩卡拉這次任務失敗與否，將決定他是否可重回自由之身並是否有機會回到他深愛女子的懷抱，但在風聲鶴唳的大清洗時代，佩卡拉面對的不僅只是找出兇手，他還必須為人稱「紅色沙皇」的史達林效命…
本書網站http://www.inspectorpekkala.com/(赵衡 & Kate Cheng)

Awards/获奖情况：美國Bantam出版社今年春季重點強推，在重金簽下兩本後，已決定再加簽兩本
版權已售：美國、法國、義大利、希臘、葡萄牙、波蘭、塞爾維亞、巴西… 持續更新中

情節鋪陳緊湊、出乎預料，讀來讓人欲罷不能---英國獨立報

Review ’Eastland’s compact but rollicking debut ... it’s written with flair and has plenty of stand-out sequences, among them a slow, surreal drive through a Potemkin village and a descent into a disused mine to look for bodies.’---英國衛報

’There are a lot of twists on the way, including Pekkala’s reunion with a long-lost brother who works for the other side. The fast-moving narrative kept me reading, as did the author’s feeling for Russia, the descriptions of life in the Siberian outback and the nightmare conditions of Stalin’s prisons. The deaths of the Romanovs are well recounted and plausibly reconstructed. Tension builds as the detective analyses the last moments of the doomed family.’---英國獨立報

’A fantastic premise, frenetic action sequences and a stellar setting would all set apart this debut novel by Eastland...What elevates this Russian period thriller above the ranks of the average potboiler is its mad, brilliant hero, who has been brought back to life after giving up all hope in the Russian Gulag. The novel opens on a Siberian labor camp circa 1929, where one of Stalin’s most hated nemeses has been exiled so far into the Soviet wilderness that his captors are afraid to approach the ghostly figure they call "The man with bloody hands." ...The tale [has] hair-raising action sequences and spellbinding settings...
So far, the lead contender for beach book of the summer.’---美國主要書評Kirkus

‘Eastland has a sure understanding of historical events and how to weave his fictional tale into them. The see-saw narrative is a perfect ploy for a thriller, taking in both the dying embers of the Romanov era and the wake-up call that would follow with the purges and the famines, the assassinations and torture chambers ... An eccentric cast enlivens the travails of our Imperial hero. Eastland’s ability to juggle those rum eggs, peculiarity and plausibility, without scrambling the story is key to his book’s success. What can you say about a novel that has a teenage chef turned political officer as perpetually conflicted as his diet, and a chain-smoking spymaster with a wooden arm and a sideline in philosophical rumination, except a hearty Na zdorovye!’.---Independent on Sunday

‘Part crime story, part thriller, part treasure-hunt all told fluently and with great pace against a truly turbulent historical backdrop involving the death of the Romanov family, Siberian labour camps, missing jewels, the first awful hints of Collectivisation and one absolute monarch (Tsar Nicholas) being replaced by another (Stalin). But apart from the action - which is pretty much non-stop - the book also has fully-fleshed characters and a hero who manages to survive the terrors of both Old and New Regimes despite personal loss.’---www.shotsmag.co.uk

About the Author/作者介绍： 山姆·伊斯特兰是一位英国作家，现居住于美国。本书是以侦查员佩卡拉为主角的系列小说的第一部。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：USA (Bantam); France (Anne Carriere); Italy (Saggiatore); Brazil (Record); Greece (Modern Times); Portugal (Aletheia); Holland (Ambo Anthos); Poland (Albatros); Czech Republic (XYZ); Serbia (Solaris); Croatia (Skolska Kniga); Finland (Schildts)

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