The First Circle (English and Russian Edition)

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Moscow Christmas Eve 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the countrys brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the callers identity and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalins repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description