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Inspecteur Pekkala Reeks

Stap in de ijzingwekkende wereld van detectiveverhalen die zich afspelen in het turbulente Sovjet-Unie onder Stalins heerschappij. Volg de reis van een voormalige Tsaristische rechercheur, die verstrikt raakt in een gevaarlijk landschap van intriges en politieke zuiveringen. Elke zaak ontrafelt de duistere geheimen van het regime en de persoonlijke drama's van de personages, terwijl de protagonist navigeert door een land dat door angst wordt geregeerd.

Red Icon
The Beast in the Red Forest
The Red Moth
Siberian Red
Het geheime wapen
Het oog van de Rode Tsaar

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  1. Het oog van de Rode Tsaar

    • 310bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    One July, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, one man lives in purgatory, banished to a forest on the ouskirts of humanity. Pekkala, was once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, the right hand man of the Tsar himself. Now he is Prisoner 4745P, living a harsh existence in which even the strongest vanish into the merciless Soviet winter. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. The man who knew the Romanovs best is given a final mission: catch their killers, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. Find the survivor of that bloody night and you will change history. In a land of uneasy alliances and deadly treachery, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its core the land he loves

    Het oog van de Rode Tsaar1
    3,8

  2. Het geheime wapen

    • 299bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    Na de Russische Revolutie raakt inspecteur Pekkala, ooit de rechterhand van de tsaar, in ongenade. Hij wordt gevangengehouden in een goelag in het Siberische woud. Maar dan blijkt dat zijn kwaliteiten onmiskenbaar zijn: Pekkala krijgt van Stalin de opdracht de moordenaar van de Romanovs te vinden. Deze missie brengt Pekkala, en zijn broer Anton die hij al jaren niet heeft gezien, weer bij elkaar. De lichamen van de Romanovs worden gevonden, op één na. Terwijl flashbacks onthullen wat zich in het verleden tussen beide broers heeft afgespeeld, ontvouwt zich in het heden een huiveringwekkend mysterie. De getuigen die kunnen helpen de moordenaar van de Romanovs te vinden - en het antwoord op de vraag of de laatste Romanov wellicht ontsnapt is - worden een voor een vermoord.

    Het geheime wapen2
    3,7

  3. Siberian Red

    • 318bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    SEPTEMBER 1939. THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An informant claims to have information about the whereabouts of the man entrusted by the Tsar with hiding his gold. As the news of the informant reaches Stalin, however, the man is knifed to death. Stalin summons Pekkala to the Kremlin and orders him to solve the murder. To accomplish his mission, he must return to Borodok, the notorious Gulag where he himself spent many years as a prisoner. There, he must pose as a inmate in order to unravel the mystery . . . As he returns to the nightmares of his past, is this a mission too far for the great Pekkala?

    Siberian Red3
    4,2

  4. The Red Moth

    As this gripping action thriller opens it is the summer of 1941 and Russia has been invaded.

    The Red Moth4
    4,0

  6. Red Icon

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched in the hands of a skeleton priest, they find The Shepherd; a priceless icon thought to have been destroyed long ago. When news of its discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, once a favorite of Tsar and known to all of Russia as The Emerald Eye. To unravel the secret of the icon's past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals known as The Skoptsy, who were hunted to extinction years by the Bolshevik Secret Police. Or so it was believed. As Pekkala soon learns, the last survivors of this brutal sect have clung to life in the shadowy forests of Siberia. With the reappearance of the icon, they have returned to claim the treasure they say belongs to them alone, bringing with them a new and terrible weapon to unleash upon the Russian people. Unless the Emerald Eye can stop them.

    Red Icon6
    4,1

  7. Berlin Red

    • 377bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket. This device, known only by the codename Diamondstream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. When a radio message sent to Hitler's headquarters, heralding the success of Diamondstream, is intercepted by an English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device. Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the Red Army swarms through its streets, British Special Operations turns to the Kremlin for help. They ask for one man in particular - Inspector Pekkala

    Berlin Red7
    4,1