{"product_id":"stalins-gold-the-dci-frank-merlin-series-2-mark-ellis","title":"Stalin's Gold (The DCI Frank Merlin Series #2) - Mark Ellis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDecember 1938. Moscow.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJosef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeptember 1940. London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKilinski's fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, Stalin's spies in London, members of the Polish government in exile, and a ruthless Russian gangster, are amongst those caught up in Merlin's enquiries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSweeping from Stalin's Russia to Civil War Spain, from Aztec Mexico to pre-war Poland, and from Hitler's Berlin to Churchill's London, a compelling story of treasure, grand larceny, treachery, torture and murder unfolds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEventually as Hitler reluctantly accepts that the defiance of the RAF has destroyed his chances of invasion for the moment, a violent shoot-out in Hampstead leads Merlin on the final truth....and Stalin to his gold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57128836366716,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/SG-ME-01.jpg?v=1782936128","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/stalins-gold-the-dci-frank-merlin-series-2-mark-ellis","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}