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A pageturning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK

1963 In a desolate Russian penal colony the radio blares the news of President Kennedys death Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasins new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion This is where disgraced agents like Vasin are sent to disappear and die quietly But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world who ordered the murder of President Kennedy

In a breathless chase that leads them throughout the Soviet Union from the barren Siberian wastelands to the stunning halls of the Catherine Palace and into the gritty streets of Leningrad and Moscow Vasin must stay one step ahead of the deadliest spy and police organizations in the world and keep the most wanted man in Russia alive The journey will push Vasins loyalty morality and patriotism to the limit until he faces the ultimate choice fall in line or die fighting the system

With masterly storytelling that weaves together a moment of explosive history with the cutthroat machinations of Soviet politics Owen Matthewss White Fox captures the paradigmshifting assassination from a unique Soviet point of view This is a pageturning thriller across Russia where characters facing impossible odds are forced to decide among truth justice and allout war