- 2011
- year of publication
- —
- Length
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- E-book
- Format
- Publisher
- W N
- ISBN-13
- 978-02-9786-414-1
- EAN
- 9780297864141
- Publication date
- 2011-06-10
- Book
- Special Assignments · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition
Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886. The other is a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who strikes terror into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889 - and who may have more in common with London's own Jack the Ripper than simply a taste for women of easy virtue.


