Shadow Pass: A Novel of Suspense Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been dying to write that as my title for this review. For those of you who haven't read this book, this is Sam Eastland's sequel to Eye of the Red Tsar. It is about the main returning character Inspector Pekkala along with his assistant Major Kirov going off to investigate another perplexing crime: the murder of an eccentric inventor of a new type of tank at the eve of WWII. The book starts off to me at a good pace and have the same style of writing used in the first book along with good descriptions, characters, and lines! Which to all people who have read this book already hopefully get the joke of the title. By the time this book concludes, to me, the closing chapters are a bit dry despite the so-call action but the ending leaves us on a funny and mysterious note as to what will happen next to one of our (Me, included) favorite characters. Spoiler: To find out where Inspector Pekkala supposedly goes next, go to Eastland's website: [...]. Thanks for reading my review. I can't wait for the next book.
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"Come on, Inspector, let's go have a look at this tank. Maybe they will let us take one home."
"We wouldn't have to worry about someone taking our parking spot...We just parked on top of them." (pg. 45)
Sorry, but I really want to post the quotes with my review.

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Pekkala: He was the Romanovs' most trusted investigator. Now he's Stalin's greatest fear. He operates in the shadows of one of history's most notorious regimes. He seeks the truth in a nation where finding it can mean death—or worse. His name his Inspector Pekkala, and this time he's taking on a case with implications far deadlier than anything he can imagine: a shattering revelation that was never meant to be unearthed. Its official name is T-34, and this massive and mysterious new weapon is being developed in total secrecy in the Russian countryside, a thirty-ton killing machine. Its inventor, Colonel Rolan Nagorski, is a rogue genius whose macabre death is considered an accident only by the innocent. And Josef Stalin is no innocent. Suspecting assassins everywhere, he brings in his best—if least obedient—detective to solve a murder that's tantamount to treason. Answerable to no one, Pekkala has the dictator's permission to go anywhere and interrogate anyone. But in Soviet Russia that's easily a death sentence. The closer Pekkala gets to the answers, the more questions he uncovers—first and foremost, why is the state's most dreaded female operative, Commissar Major Lysenkova, investigating the case when she's only assigned to internal affairs?Pekkala is on a collision course not only with the Soviet secret police but the USSR's deepest military secrets. For what he is about to learn could put Stalin and his Communist state under for good—and bury Pekkala with them. Brilliantly researched and rivetingly plotted, Shadow Pass is a superb story of suspense in a series growing only richer—and with a detective getting only better.

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