Audio Book Description:
Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord, fluent inRussianand well versed in the country`s history is thrilled to be in Moscow on the eveof such a momentous event. Afterthe fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the monarchy. The newtsar will be chosen from amongthe distant relatives of Nicholas II, and Miles` job is to perform a back- ground check onthe tsarist candidate favoredby a powerful group of Westernbusinessmen. But research quicly becomsthe least of Miles` concerns when he is nearly killed by gunmen on a city plaza. Suddenly Miles is racing acrosscontinents, shadowed by nefarious hench-men. At first, his only question is whypeople are pursueing him. Buit after a strangeconversation with a mysterious RRussian who steers him toward the writings of Rasputin, Miles becomes desperate to know more. Hisonly guide is cryptic messagefrom Rasputin implying that thebloody night of so long ago isnot the last chapter in the Romanov sotry...and thatsomeonemight even have survived themassacre. The prophecy`s implications are earth shattering-not only for the futureof the tsar and mother Russia, butalso for Miles himself.