Moscow Bound [Hardback Edition]
Book One of The Puppet Meisters trilogy
Adrian Churchward
Hardback
'Moscow Bound' is the first book in The Puppet Meisters trilogy, dealing with state abuse of power.
- ISBN 9781781322024
- Published Apr 2014
- Hardback
216 x 140mm (336 pages) - Also available as:
Paperback £11.99
He fights for the powerless. Can he win when his enemy is the Russian state?
Human rights lawyer Scott Mitchell believes no one – not even the government – is above the law. Fresh off winning a war crimes case against the Kremlin, he’s approached by a beautiful Russian woman begging for help finding her father hidden in the Gulags. And when she narrowly escapes a brutal car bombing, Mitchell senses bad actors already have her in the crosshairs and jumps into action.
As the two stumble upon disturbing clues, an old photo and dead bodies, they are continually thwarted by a powerful GRU officer. And when his client and her baby vanish, Mitchell fears she’s become a pawn in a Cold War secret that could bring them both to an untimely end.
Can the idealistic lawyer rescue the woman and her missing parent before he’s the next to disappear?
Moscow Bound is the first book in the gripping Puppet Meisters political conspiracy trilogy. If you like bold heroes, buried secrets, and sinister villains with twisted loyalties, then you’ll love Adrian Churchward’s pulse-pounding thriller.
Buy Moscow Bound to unravel a web of lies today!
Take a look inside Moscow Bound
Between 1984 and 1998 Adrian Churchward lived and worked in Moscow, Budapest and Prague as an East-West trade lawyer, representing British, American and German corporations. During this period he became proficient in
translating Russian commercial and legal texts into English.
He was one of the few Western lawyers working in the day-to-day arena of President Gorbachev’s liberalisation process of perestroika and glasnost, and which ultimately resulted in the collapse of communism and disintegration of the Soviet Union. In 1991, he witnessed the abortive coup against Gorbachev and in 1993, he was again present in Moscow when Yeltsin ordered the shelling of the Russian parliament building, aka the "The Russian White House”.
He lives in London, has two daughters, three grandsons and a cat that eats furniture. Read more about Adrian at
www.adrianchurchward.com.
'Moscow Bound by Adrian Churchward, as far as I’m concerned, is nothing short of a masterpiece of political fiction...the novel suckered me in from the opening chapter and once I was drawn in, I literally couldn’t pull myself away from this fascinating, intriguing, and often startling plot.'
– Charlotte Barnes — Mad Hatter Reviews
'As I read and got more and more involved with the action of the search, a man came to mind that would represent Scott Mitchell... Anybody who has seen Liam Neelson go after somebody like he's done in several of his movies, will realize the skilled, tenacious, and fearless character that we meet in Moscow Bound. A very cool character that takes nothing from nobody! And that's what was needed to break into a prison and escape with one of the prisoners... if, indeed, that was where he was and if he was still even alive... Got to say that this would make a wonderful movie! But if that doesn't happen, check out this book further. This is probably the best inside book I've read of this time period in Russia.'
– Glenda Bixler—Book Reader's Heaven
English solicitor Adrian Churchward’s novel combines the tension of an action thriller with the insight of a lawyer who lived and practised in Moscow, Budapest and Prague from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s.'
– Jonathan Rayner — Law Society Gazette
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