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Dan Smith: Red Winter

Delivering harrowing adventure and suspense set against an unforgiving landscape, the new novel by Dan Smith will leave you chilled to the bone…

1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and empty. The men have been massacred in the forest. The women and children have disappeared.

In this remote, rural Russian community the folk tales that mothers tell their children by candlelight take on powerful significance, and the terrifying legend of Koschei, The Deathless One, begins to feel very real. Kolya sets out on a journey through dense, haunting forests and across vast plains against the bitter winter, in the desperate hope he will find his wife and two boys-and find them alive. But there are very dark things in Kolya's past. And, as he strives to find his family, there's someone-or something-following his trail…

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Pegasus Books, New York, 2014
406 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 1605986097
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Pegasus Books, New York, 2014
416 oldal · ASIN: B00IDEQNZ6
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Orion, London, 2014
422 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 1409128199

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Népszerű idézetek

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When Alek and I had left our unit, all we wanted was to find some normality, to enjoy the peace of our families and escape the fire and blood of war, but perhaps that was my destiny. Fire and blood.

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Anyone can die. I had seen that often enough.

64. oldal

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'I'll do the others if you want.' He looked at me. 'And thank you.'
'For what?'
'For not killing me,' he said.
And his words confirmed for me what a terrible country this had become, where a man thanked another for letting him alive.

101. oldal

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Religion was not part of the new way, and Chekists were already rounding up the priests. Bolshevism was the new religion, with Lenin as its god and the persecution of counter-revolutionaries as its ceremony.

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    If I were to have squeezed the trigger, the bullet would have passed through her head from bottom to top and the two children above the pich would be motherless. A fraction of a second, nine grammes of lead, and a pinch of gunpowder was all it would take.

300. oldal

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    Ryzhkov spread his hands wide. 'We're all Koschei. Don't you see that? Every one of us tasked with spreading the terror that keeps the enemy in the shadow is Koschei. We're a whispered promise of death.'

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But I knew it was true. The cold told me that. The fear told me that.

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If anything ever taught me that our country was hard on people, it was that a twelve-year-old girl could offer to help drag dead men from a family home.

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    I sighed and lowered the pistol. 'I'm sorry.'
    'What good is „sorry”?' she said. 'Can I eat it? Will it keep me warm? Will it give me my sister back? Will it bring back my neighbour's son and resurrect her husband from the dead?'

219. oldal


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