{"product_id":"black-sun-9780552176576","title":"Black Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussian expert OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of two highly praised works of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eStalin's Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Impeccable Spy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand two acclaimed historical thrillers, \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e. As a war correspondent, he covered conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Ukraine, and for ten years he was was \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e's Moscow bureau chief. He divides his time between Rome and Moscow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning debut thriller . . . ferocious, authentic and utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting. -- Geoffrey Wansell * DAILY MAIL *\u003cbr\u003eThere are some authors who have gone out into the world to observe the good, the bad and the ugly. Owen Matthews is such a novelist. \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun \u003c\/i\u003eis fascinating and has fearsome authenticity. -- FREDERICK FORSYTH\u003cbr\u003eAn outstanding first novel . . . Matthews writes superbly. * SUNDAY TIMES 'Crime Book of the Month' *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best thrillers of recent years . . . a glorious book, a tour-de-force. It drips with authenticity from every page  . . . a page-turning, thumping good read. -- DAVID YOUNG, bestselling author of Stasi Child\u003cbr\u003eFact and fiction combine to keep the pages turning in this impressive debut thriller. -- Antonia Senior * THE TIMES 'Best Historical Fiction of the Year' *\u003cbr\u003eA stunning debut. Matthews writes enviably well and knows Soviet Russia inside-out. Fantastic. -- CHARLES CUMMING\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling . . . \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e propels Matthews straight into the first division of thriller writers. -- Adam LeBor * FINANCIAL TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eThis thrilling and suspenseful and original thriller of murder and power is a compelling voyage into the darkest secret city of the soviet nuclear project by an expert on all of Russian life. -- SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE\u003cbr\u003eThe most exciting thriller or mystery story debut this year . . . a cold war whodunnit . . . an absolutely gripping novel by one who knows Russia well and evokes a horrifyingly convincing Soviet Union. -- A. N. Wilson * THE TABLET 'Books of the Year' *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly plotted and all the more satisfying because it is based on a true story . . . Something else, too: you get it that the Soviet Union in the sixties was a mess with all the wrong people holding the levers of power. And yet, inside the machine, there were humans too: sometimes noble, often seriously brilliant. Reading \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is like stepping into a time machine and setting the dial for Soviet Russia, 1961. -- JOHN SWEENEY\u003cbr\u003eA rattlingly good yarn . . . Matthews has the uncanny ability to transport the reader back in time to the Soviet Union of 1961 . . . a debut novel which deserves a wide readership. -- Trevor Royle * THE HERALD *\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly dark and disturbing thriller. -- Jon Wise * SPORT *\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric . . . his evocation of the landscape and times is sharp, and the insights into the horrors of the Communist past chastening . . . a powerful and gripping piece of writing. -- Maxim Jakubowski * CRIME TIME *\u003cbr\u003eBased on real events . . . this story is set in a secret Soviet city in 1961. Featuring murder and betrayals, and a flawed but principled KGB man as its hero, it unfolds in the aftermath of Stalinism, amid the scars left by the purges, denunciations and Great Patriotic War. The author, a former Moscow correspondent, knows his terrain inside out. * THE ECONOMIST 'Books of the Year' *\u003cbr\u003eGripping and authentic.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jason Goodwin * COUNTRY LIFE *\u003cbr\u003e'[Matthews] impressive first novel . . . the murder investigation is clever, the science neatly explained . . . and the descriptions . . . are revealing. * LITERARY REVIEW *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735170888023,"sku":"9780552176576","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-sun-9780552176576","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}