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Child 44

by Tom Rob Smith
Excellent Thriller with secrets, intrigue and more than a few twists. A gripping read about the starvation and brutality under Stalin.- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

About The Author


Born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father, Tom Rob Smith's bestselling novels in the Child 44 trilogy were international publishing sensations. Among its many honors, Child 44 won the International Thriller Writer Award for Best First Novel, the Galaxy Book Award for Best New Writer, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliot Prize. The film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman was released in 2015. Tom's most recent novel, The Farm, was a widely acclaimed #1 bestseller and is currently being adapted for film.

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