Archangel

Whilst attending a conference on newly-opened Soviet archives, Fluke Kelso is approached by an old NKVD officer who knows where Beria hid Stalin's private papers. What begins as an academic curiosity turns into a murderous chase across Russia.

Michael Specter

...[Gives] those of us who retain some literary nostalgia for the Evil Empire exactly what we have been waiting for: a thriller about the bad old days set in the deepgray present....In Harris' able hands you can feel the oppression of Stalin's time....If you pull at the threads they'll unravel; so don't. The book is still funexciting even....Harris never loses sight of the big picture. —The New York Times Book Review

Robert Harris has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times. His novels have sold more than six million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and three young children.