An ambitious secret police officer, Leo Demidov believes he’s helping to build the perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large—a threat the state won’t admit exists—Demidov must risk everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to expose the truth.

A thriller unlike any you have ever heard

But what if the danger isn’t from the killer he is trying to catch, but from the country he is fighting to protect?

Nominated for seventeen international awards and inspired by a real-life investigation, Child 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a totalitarian world. From the screenwriter of the acclaimed television series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

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Durée

14 heures et 1 minute
Auteur

Tom Rob Smith
Narrateur

Jamie Parker
Date de sortie sur audible

10 novembre 2022
Langue

Anglais
Éditeur

Simon & Schuster Audio UK
ASIN

B0BF5ZC8LG
Version

Version intégrale
Type de programme

Livre audio
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Durée	14 heures et 1 minute
Auteur	Tom Rob Smith
Narrateur	Jamie Parker
Date de publication sur Audible.fr	10 novembre 2022
Éditeur	Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Type de programme	Livre audio
Version	Version intégrale
Langue	Anglais
ASIN	B0BF5ZC8LG

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4,3 sur 5

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Simon Godly

Watch film - then read book

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 28 septembre 2015

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I bought the book because I had seen the film. As often is the case they are two slightly different beasts. Perhaps I had been a bit dull but the lead up towards the end did catch me by surprise. Enjoyed the characters. I have travelled in the USSR and could easily imagine some of the scenarios. Fear and denunciations were part and parcel of life for many. Have almost finished the sequel.

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will

excellent livre

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 13 mai 2016

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acheté pour ma fille trilingue.elle a beaucoup aimé ce livre qui a été utilisé en classe et qui était demandé par le prof.

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 2 septembre 2020

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Livre en bon état, rapidement parvenu.

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Annabelle

A lire pour un bon moment de lecture...

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 2 août 2014

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Si vous ne connaissez pas Tom Rob Smith allez-y , foncez les yeux fermés !
Enfilez juste une bonne doudoune car il fait froid dans les romans de Smith ;) !

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Utile

un roman policier pas comme les autres

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 12 septembre 2015

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l'atmosphère soviétique fait que se roman est très différent du roman classique qui se passe en Europe ou USA. Très bien écris.

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Andrew Wood

Unrelentingly depressing

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 7 février 2012

Bravo to the author for bringing to life the paranoia and terror of this era of Soviet history and repression. A gritty insight into the 'mentality' of the Soviet state machinery and secret police.

As a reading experience it makes for a less than totally enjoyable experience because....there is simply no one within the story that one feels any empathy with. Even the main character (I decline to use the word hero) is portrayed as a cruel automaton of the NKVD who arrests and delivers up for torture and worse the poor innocents that he is set upon.
Thus the novel failed to ignite any real connection to any character.

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Anne, Lyon

Excellent!

Commenté en France 🇫🇷 le 24 janvier 2010

Un très bon roman policier, mais est-ce vraiment le bon qualificatif? En fait, le plus passionnant réside sans doute dans la description de la Russie sous Staline, et du système effrayant qui a broyé tant d'hommes et de femmes.
L'intrigue en deviendrait presque secondaire...

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hibbzie.

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (as always no spoilers)

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 2 juillet 2021

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Having never read anything by the author and never read of this kind of genre, i didn't know what to expect. Also I've not seen the film as i wanted to finish the book first. The book has a slow start and i considered giving up on it but I'm very glad that i stuck with it.

The main part of the story is set in Stalinist Soviet Union, where any mistake, the wrong thing said to the wrong person - a neighbour, a friend a stranger in the street, or even a family member can and will get you arrested and either a 5 - 25 year sentence hard labour in the gulag or the execution of the whole family.

Leo Demidov is a member of the MGB (later to become the KGB), he fully believes in the country he loves and fully believes that - as the state insists - there are no criminals, no crimes committed.

Then Leo finds the body of a child, naked and horribly mutilated and he decides to investigate against orders from his superiors, thus putting not just his life but the life of his wife Raisa in terrible danger.

This is also the story of one man's fight alongside his wife against the system, against orders, against the country they love. We see a big change in both Leo and Raisa in their fight for justice as their search for the murderer uncovers more and more murdered children all over the country, killed in the same way, all covered up by the state that wanted everybody to believe that crime does not exist.

I gladly give Child 44 5 stars, if you've not read anything by Mr Smith before, give him a try, you never know you might like it, i certainly did.

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Derick Parsons

Good

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 20 janvier 2020

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Unusual in that the background to the story is more important than the story itself, or the characters. Actually the characters are rather one dimensional and the story itself a touch silly but the atmosphere of terror and oppression, the gloom of a vast nation of informers, victims and state sponsored murderers doing a tragic, endless, pointless dance, IS the story. It would have better without Vasili, who was an easy, cardboard cut-out baddie, and the escape from the train was a bit ludicrous. Then again, everyone in Russia rallying to them at the end, defying the state, contradicted the whole point of the book, and dispelled the pervasive atmosphere of fear and mistrust. Enjoyable, though.

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Helen Simpson

An atmospheric thriller amidst a paranoid political system

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 12 décembre 2017

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This book attracted me enough to buy it after a friend recommended it a few years ago, yet I always seemed to pick up a different, 'less Russian' sounding book up off my bookcase. That was a mistake because this book reeled me in quickly and kept me hooked until the last page.
This is a novel that explores and educates us about what it must have been like to live in Stalin's Russia, and never before have I been so glad to have been born in 'the free world'.
The central character is Leo Demidov, who is an officer working for the M.G.M. (Ministry of State Security...pre KGB) who believes in his country and takes his job very seriously. However, he develops doubts about the very system he has always worked to uphold and has to struggle with some serious moral issues as it becomes apparent that there is a killer on the loose.

Unlike other thrillers which often have an obvious crime/murder early on in the book, Smith instead focuses on day to day life for Leo and how slowly over the course of the book, his attitude changes until it feels like just him against the whole corrupt system.
Written in the third person, Smith's writing flows well and his style of writing dialogue as italics works because it fits the very direct, military style that was apparent throughout. Whilst the ending seemed relatively easily 'tidied up' in comparison to the totalitarian fear and hopelessness leading up to it, the suspense and 'edge-of-your-seat' atmosphere ensured that it worked.

Tom Rob Smith excels at building tension and because he's not afraid to 'lose characters' it felt like no one was safe.

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David P

Grim, draining, but not bad

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 25 janvier 2017

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I enjoyed this, depressing and grim as it is, enjoyed it enough to want to see it through to the end to find out what happens to Leo and his wife. And probably enough to read the sequels too. But what is the fascination with marking dialog by a dash and then italics? What's wrong with good old quotation marks? I thought (!) italics were more commonly used to indicate internal dialog, thoughts. At first I wondered if this might be some temporary indication of flashback or whatever, but it carries on throughout and I don't see the need for it. I just found it annoying.

The premise for the story, namely that the appalling society of the time simply did not allow the notion that such a crime could take place to even exist, is interesting. Some characters could do with a bit more meat on them, the identity of the killer and their reasons for doing it are pretty obvious and weird respectively, and the ending is a bit contrived, but overall it's still not bad. It certainly conveys the frightening, oppressed misery of life in that society and era very well. Not sure I will bother with the film now though, knowing the story already.

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mrs sheila butcher

An ugly book.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 16 janvier 2019

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I certainly could not recommend this book . Everything about it was ugly. The early chapters about living in Stalin's Russia were depressing in the extreme. But when we got to the murders the real horror began. The detailed descriptions of the actual murders was revolting. I think the author has a sick mind. I would not wish to meet him. I just cannot understand how this novel has been praised - the praise misled me into reading it. I must now clear my mind of it.

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