The Death of Achilles
Author(s): Boris Akunin
Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics and scandal. His old friend General Sobolev - the famous 'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room, and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years - Fandorin embarks on an investigation, during which the political and the personal may become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable martial arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why ...
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Death of Achilles is a homage to Inspector Clouseau, with a servant who is not unlike the hapless Cato... Tremendous sales in Phoenix paperback - over 150,000 sold so far...and still going 'This fourth book in Akunin's series of detective novels starring dashing hero Erast Fandorin will not disappoint fans of the first three, or indeed any connoisseur of detective fiction...a witty, rip-roaring thrill-fest' Time Out 'Akunin is a sensation. He has created a popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James Bond...Akunin's finest creation and the star of his titles is Erast Fandorin - genius, gentleman, polyglot, kickboxer, and all-round inordinately lucky bloke' The Times 'With The Death of Achilles, the hilarious and dashing Erast Fandorin, Akunin's debonair Russian Sherlock Holmes, just seems to get better and better Sunday Express
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over ten million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.35
- : 01 August 2006
- : 197mm X 132mm X 28mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Boris Akunin
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 891.735
- : 368
- : FA