Those familiar with our hero Erast Fandorin's adventures, in which he exhibits his formidable skills of detection, will be delighted with this latest assignment which occurs after his return to Moscow, accompanied by his Japanese manservant Maso, following six diplomatic years in Japan. He is confronted with a new mystery: the 'murder' of his friend General Sobolev, the Russian Achilles, which he is 'invited' to solve . . . and of course that's not all.
(James Baker - bwl 39 April 2007 ) |
