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Book 1 of the “Volcanic Apocalypse” series

The Taiga Will Hide a Convict

The escape of a group of hardened repeat offenders from the Yuryevsk strict-regime colony caught the security forces of Kamchatka by surprise, and they turned to Moscow…

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2014
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
220
ISBN:
978-5-699-71292-2
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
Translated edition published as:
Charles Ashford
The Taiga Will Hide a ConvictExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

The escape of a group of hardened repeat offenders from the Yuryevsk strict-regime colony caught the security forces of Kamchatka by surprise, and they turned to Moscow for help. Lieutenant Colonel Afanasy Pokrovsky of the Investigative Committee arrived from the capital at once. He devised an operation to catch the fugitives and, at the head of a detachment of interior troops, set off into the taiga, believing that the criminals could have hidden only there. The operation gathered pace, and just as the pursuers were about to overtake the fugitives, something unimaginable happened: a volcano considered extinct for hundreds of years “came alive”. Tons of ash erupted into the sky at the very moment Pokrovsky's detachment was in the immediate vicinity of the volcano…

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The Taiga Will Hide a Convict