International intrigue, the criminal underworld of 19th-century Moscow and an irresistible femme fatale - if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is about to be disappointed. Now he has been called to use his famed powers of deduction to track down the killer of his old friend General Sobolev - the Russian Achilles. Paperback , 362 pages Published 2006 by Phoenix (first published 1998)