Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution.
In the meantime, junior magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky plays a dangerous game of his own. Following a chance meeting with a man he suspects of being an arsonist, he volunteers to infiltrate a terrorist cell. But the young man's loyalties appear divided, his motives conflicted. Will he track down the killers, or to use his position as a magistrate to further a cause with which he sympathises?
The issue comes to a head in a shocking and violent confrontation between two generations.
The Cleansing Flames is the fourth book in R. N. Morris's acclaimed series featuring the investigator from Crime and Punishment.
| ISBN: | 9780571259151 |
| Publication date: | 19th May 2011 |
| Author: | Roger Morris |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 467 pages |
| Genres: |
Crime and Mystery |
Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later.
The Cleansing Flames features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery
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The Cleansing Flames was written by Roger Morris and published by Faber & Faber
The Cleansing Flames has 467 pages