This was a perfect audio for a long car trip. Fandorin is a Russian detective only recently returned to 19th-century Moscow from Japan with his faithful manservant, the samurai-like Masa. Upon arrival, he immediately learns of the death of an old friend, General Sobolev, known as the Russian Achilles. It appears that the 38-year-old General died from natural causes, but Fandorin is immediately doubtful. The investigation takes him to the boudoir of Moscow's most famous chanteuse and into seedy underworld cafes and high-level government offices. Full of secret poisons, arcane weaponry, skilled hitmen, and lots of bodies. It's summertime in Moscow, so there's no snow here, but it's still great fun. Audiobook reader Paul Michael does a great job: his Russian accents sounded great to this utnrained ear, but were fully comprehensible.
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