MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
Lev Demidov Serie
Esta serie se desarrolla en la opresiva atmósfera de la Unión Soviética de Stalin, una sociedad donde una fachada de perfección oculta una cruda realidad. Sigue a un agente de la policía secreta que empieza a cuestionar la narrativa oficial al enfrentarse a un asesinato que los poderosos intentan ocultar. Cuando su propia familia se ve envuelta en un peligroso juego, debe enfrentarse al sistema al que una vez sirvió en una lucha desesperada por la verdad y la supervivencia.
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Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature.
Agent 6
- 560 páginas
- 20 horas de lectura
Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is thrown into a foreign conflict and is forced to question and confront everything he ever thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself.