by Tom Rob Smith · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781847371287
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«The Secret Speech» is a historical thriller by Tom Rob Smith, published by Simon & Schuster in hardcover (453 pages, in English).
In the USSR of 1956, after Stalin's death, society is cracking: law enforcers act like criminals and the accused seem innocent. The spread of Khrushchev's secret speech, which denounces the dictator and promises change, stirs old grudges; some seek revenge and unleash a spiral of violence.
First British edition, published in 2009.
For readers of historical thrillers and political plots in the Soviet Union, as well as for those already familiar with Child 44, by the same author.
Tom Rob Smith is an English author, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the author of Child 44, a novel about the investigation of child murders during the Soviet Union. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, and Smith has written two sequels: The Secret Speech and Agent 6. His first standalone novel, The Farm, was published in 2014.
