
Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.





While in Moscow to attend a conference about the Soviet Archives, Professor Fluke Kelso meets a mysterious old man with ties to Joseph Stalin.
Fluke tries to find out more about the missing notebook, but his investigation is put on hold when he's pursued by a relentless force.
As the clock ticks for the forest of Archangel, Professor Kelso is one step away from uncovering the life-altering truth about the legacy of Stalin.