A new novel from Elvira Baryakina, the bestselling author of the Russian Treasures series, about love, spy games, and top political secrets in the shadow of the Kremlin.
With the advent of Joseph Stalin to power in 1927, the Soviet Union begins to turn into a monstrous totalitarian state eager to enslave its own population and consume the neighboring countries. But the world is not aware of what is going on since Soviet Russia closely guards its secrets and knows how to deal with the inquisitive.
Nina Kupina, a Russian political exile, is abducted by the Soviet agents in China who bring her to Moscow. She takes refuge at the house of Oscar Reich, an American millionaire who, unaccountably, has a privilege to run a private enterprise in the USSR.
Nina suspects that Mr. Reich is not whom he pretends to be, and there is some shady deal between him and the Bolsheviks. But she accepts his advances, knowing that he is the only person able to help her return home to her husband, Klim, who is living in Shanghai.
Little does she know that Klim is already in Russia looking for her. To make inquiries about Nina's whereabouts, he takes a position in the United Press as a correspondent in Moscow. His search leads him not to the reunion with his wife but to his imminent arrest as a spy. And Oscar Reich is ready to do everything to make sure Klim gets into the trap set by the OGPU (the predecessor of the KGB).
The Prince of the Soviets is an epic tale of courageous people who dared to challenge one of the cruelest regimes in history. Tragic and uplifting, it gives readers not only a bigger picture that explains the rise of the communist regime but also a rare glimpse into the inner world of the Soviet people-those who ruled and those who were destined to submit, the producers of propaganda and its victims.
This novel is a must read for fans of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, and The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons.
