Lenin's Roller Coaster by David Downing, New in Bookstores during March 2017

Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2017 is …

Lenin's Roller Coaster by David Downing, a Jack McColl Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Soho Crime

 

In Russia the Bolshevik revolution is in full-swing while the supposed Great War is destroying Europe in ways never before imagined. Fulltime lovers and part-time enemies, British spy Jack McColl and progressive American journalist Caitlin Hanley, have seen their relationship survive this far but in a world defined by "win at all cost" attitudes how much longer can they hold out?

Winter 1917: As a generation of Europe's young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in Central Asia, where German influence is strong. The mission only becomes more dangerous the closer he gets to its heart. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, Irish-American radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, is in Bolshevik Russia, thrilled to have the chance to cover the Revolution. Caitlin knows Moscow is where she is meant to be during this historic event — even if she is putting her own life at risk to bear witness.

But four years of bloody war have taken their toll on all of Europe, and Jack and Caitlin's relationship may become another casualty. Caitlin's political convictions have always been for progress, feminism, and socialism — often diametrically opposed to the conservative goals of the British Empire Jack serves. Up until now, Jack and Caitlin have managed to set aside their allegiances and stay faithful to each other, but the stakes of their affair have risen too high. Can a revolutionary love a spy? And if she does, will it cost one of them their life?

— Lenin's Roller Coaster by David Downing

For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2017. For new paperback titles, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2017 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.