Wolfhound Century the doll people

Wolfhound Century the doll peopleInvestigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is

What could have driven her to commit such a desperate act

one of grit

telling stories with such verbal dexterity

a struggling actress considered past her prime

And Alice intends to keep it that way

And then close his beady little eyes forever

Each highlights "What's in this for baby and me

as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin

where he has encountered the likes of Marlon Brando

As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval

Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

threatening the Allied war effort and sending thousands of men to the icy depths of the North Atlantic