Man of bonesWinter, 1953. Along with Sergeant Lidia Gerashvili, and Major Nikitin, the interrogator who once cut off Rossel's fingers, Rossel sets off on the trail of a murderer whose crimes surpass those of even the deranged tsar Ivan the Terrible. A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.

he invites the dead back into the real world - at least

frequently

embrace - the fact that they may never return home

unspeakably brutal entertainments

while the living are fast joining the dead

there will be doom

Inspired by the first recorded person in Ireland to have been condemned as a witch

of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living

Dreams are a source of mystery

his only option is to return to his family's empty summer cabin

keeping them safe

gets the chance to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting JFK in November 1963