Ivan Duvakin is a victim of circumstance. Previously caught up in a scandal while working security in Moscow he now finds himself Magadan, a former center for the regional slave labor camps of the Gulag. Duvakin has been given a cushy job in Agitprop in the isolated town, which is literally in the middle of nowhere. And yet, because of a chance encounter at the airport he finds himself in the middle of a new plot that threatens to spin out of control and consume everything around it... including him.
Olcott's writing doesn't sugar-coat life under communism and the picture he paints of Magadan in the early 1980s, and the operations of the Militia and the KGB, certainly rings true. In a society where the signed "confession" replaces trials, can anyone expect justice?
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