Hellish Mining

In these horrible places, only exiles live. Well, how they live. They survive. A fierce climate, taiga, full of hungry predators. Harsh laws based on the right of the strong. And to this earthly hell goes the outstanding Petersburg detective... Alexey Nikolaevich Lykov. He is tasked with finding a village lost in the mountains that is not marked on any map. But behind it trails a wake of bad, very unpleasant rumors. It is said that people disappear without a trace in the village—up to fifty a year. They go there—and that's the end of it. No trace, no sign. But what is completely incomprehensible: unexpectedly, Lykov's ally becomes the godfather of Petersburg crime, the "Russian Professor Moriarty" Illarion Rudaitis, nicknamed Sorokoum. This devil in the flesh promised the detective any help and money, just to reach the mysterious place and find there the brother of Sorokoum, Mikhail…

Author: Николай Свечин

Printhouse: Eksmo

Series: Detectives and Thieves. Historical Detectives by Nikolai Svechin

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9785042107351

Number of pages: 352

Size: 206x148x32 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 420 g

ID: 1703989

In these horrible places, only exiles live. Well, how they live. They survive. A fierce climate, taiga, full of hungry predators. Harsh laws based on the right of the strong. And to this earthly hell goes the outstanding Petersburg detective Alexey Nikolaevich Lykov. He is tasked with finding a village lost in the mountains that is not marked on any map. But behind it trails a wake of bad, very unpleasant rumors. It is said that people disappear without a trace in the village—up to fifty a year. They go there—and that's the end of it. No trace, no sign. But what is completely incomprehensible: unexpectedly, Lykov's ally becomes the godfather of Petersburg crime, the "Russian Professor Moriarty" Illarion Rudaitis, nicknamed Sorokoum. This devil in the flesh promised the detective any help and money, just to reach the mysterious place and find there the brother of Sorokoum, Mikhail…

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