Rasputin's Shadow

New York: Dutton, 2013. BR2 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Book has remainder mark on the bottom, small tear with crease on the lower right side of page 223, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Rhaymond Khoury, the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Templar, delivers an ingenious, fast-paced thriller that delves into one of history's most intriguing mysteries: the meteoric and bizarre rise to power of the infamous Russian mystic Rasputin. 9.5"x6.5", 406 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. On a cold, bleak day in 1916, all hell breaks loose in a mining pit in the Ural Mountains. Overcome by a strange paranoia, the miners attack one another, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly's search for Reed Corrigan, the CIA mindcontrol spook who brainwashed Reilly's son, takes a backseat to a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window in Queens. The apartment's owners, a retired physics teacher from Russia and his wife, have gone missing, and further investigation reveals that the former may not be who the FBI believe him to be. Joined by Russian Federal Security Service agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly's investigation of the old man's identity will uncover a desperate search for a small, mysterious device, with consequences that reach back in time and which, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on the modern world. Packed with the twists, intrigue, and excitement that Khoury's many fans have come to expect, Rasputin's Shadow will keep readers turning pages long into the night.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder.