The Ghost of Grozny
Patrick Johnson
Works of: Fiction, Audiobook
A boy in the ruins of Grozny. A pawn in his pocket. A war that will never let him go.
When Russian conscripts walk into a kitchen, Magomed’s childhood ends in the Chechen snow. By nightfall, he is on the road with nothing but a blanket, a chess pawn and a name whispered as a promise.
Talgoev, a local warlord who might keep him alive, but at what cost. From the Chechen front lines to a hidden farmhouse, the boy is forged into something new. He learns to carry secrets and rifles, to read men as easily as he once read games. But survival has a price, and every choice pulls him deeper into the shadows that killed his family.
The Ghost of Grozny is a hard-edged, deeply human spy thriller about an orphan shaped by war, and a man weaponised by the state.
Perfect for readers of Charles Cumming, Red Sparrow, and Terry Hayes I am Pilgim who want their thrillers with blood, memory and a conscience.
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