Archangel | Robert Harris | kharidobechobooks

Fluke Kelso is a washed-up Oxford historian attending a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives. His life takes a dangerous turn when he is visited in his hotel room by an old man. The visitor is a former NKVD officer who claims to have witnessed the final night of Joseph Stalin’s life.

According to the guard, a secret diary was stolen directly from Stalin's deathbed and buried deep in a remote northern forest. What begins as a search for historical truth quickly spirals into a lethal chase across a frozen wasteland. Kelso discovers that Stalin’s legacy is far from dead, and the contents of that diary could unleash a terrifying geopolitical nightmare on the modern world. Masterfully researched and fiercely gripping, Archangel is a premier espionage thriller that moves at terminal velocity.