by Sam Eastland · ANNE CARRIERE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782843375866
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«Le cercueil rouge» is the historical mystery novel by Sam Eastland, published by Anne Carrière in paperback (330 pages, in French).
In 1939, facing the Nazi threat, Stalin trusts the T-34 tank, an armored vehicle nicknamed «the red coffin». Its inventor, Colonel Nagorski, is murdered. Pekkala, former detective of the tsar, returns to service to investigate the crime; a group of former tsarist soldiers, the White Brotherhood, seems to be responsible.
Second installment of the Inspector Pekkala series. Original in English: The Red Coffin / Shadow Pass. The novel was nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award.
For readers of historical crime fiction and thrillers set during World War II.
Paul Watkins is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England (1993). He wrote his first book, Night Over Day Over Night (1988), when he was 16 years old.
