A competent first novel concerning one of the lost Cossack gold stories and the effect its retrieval from the Bank of England vaults could have internationally, and particularly between the Ukraine and Russia.
I found it slightly confusing, perhaps because I kept forgetting to check the dates at the beginning of each chapter, moving as it does not only between people but also between times. There is a grey inevitability hanging around, compounded by getting to know characters then discovering they have been, or will be, eliminated.
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