A. N. Donaldson
ASIN: B00P6Q8RM6
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 106
Gorobets is a murderer.Age 17, just before the outbreak of the First World War, he plotted to kill the Tsar. He failed, but his bomb killed innocent bystanders. Picked up by the secret police, Gorobets was exiled to Siberia, and sent to ‘Ubiichogorsk’: a deadly gulag in the middle of nowhere, which translates as the ‘City of Murderers’. Trained as a doctor, Gorobets became camp doctor in the gulag. He was no good at saving lives, but becomes an expert at saving deaths. And that is where his story starts. With those terrible killings. The bodies of two engineers are found outside the camp, their insides ripped to shreds, their skin flayed. Gorobets is sent to conduct some make-shift autopsies, and the authorities appoint him to play detective around the camp. But who can he suspect of murder in a city full of murderers? The camp had a population of twenty three hundred and fifty six, and ...