Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called brilliant Chicago Tribune, remarkable Newsweek and sensational Entertainment Weekly-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . . THE SECRET SPEECHSoviet Union, 1956. Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is beginning to fracture-leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. A secret speech composed by Stalins successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message Stalin was a tyrant. Its promise The Soviet Union will change.
