![]() ![]() ![]() It was also nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (formerly the Whitbread Prize), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Child 44, the first of a trilogy, was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller by the Crime Writer’s Association. Smith’s debut crime thriller Child 44 follows Leo Demidov, a compromised member of Moscow’s security services, who risks his career and life to capture a prolific child killer. But the journey from soap operas to a critically acclaimed bestseller set in 1950s Russia has proven to be the right path for British novelist Tom Rob Smith. Soap opera stories about messy lives and sexual dalliances would seem to have little in common with Stalinist Russia’s bleak and brutal world. Mystery Scene first talked with Tom Rob Smith upon the publication of The Secret Speech, his follow-up to the highly acclaimed Child 44. Tom Rob Smith's award-winning trilogy set in the former Soviet Union concludes with the January 2012 release of Agent 6. ![]()
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