num_pages: 416
description: Delivering harrowing adventure and suspense set against an unforgiving landscape the new novel by Dan Smith will leave you chilled to the bone . . . 1920 central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and empty. The men have been massacred in the forest. The women and children have disappeared.In this remote rural Russian community the folk tales that mothers tell their children by candlelight take on powerful significance and the terrifying legend of Koschei The Deathless One begins to feel very real. Kolya sets out on a journey through dense haunting forests and across vast plains against the bitter winter in the desperate hope he will find his wife and two boys-and find them alive. But there are very dark things in Kolya's past. And as he strives to find his family there's someone-or something-following his trail . . .
language: English
title: Red Winter
publisher: Orion