Description

Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise…

In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili – who would later take the name Joseph Stalin – met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili’s poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan.

With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili’s hardened crew of “expropriators,” they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia’s history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever…

Publisher Review

"A well-written and cleverly imagined crime thriller with a knife-sharp edge." -- Crime Review on The Bad Neighbour * Crime Review * "Exciting, gritty, and dramatic, this book has it all." -- Telegraph & Argus * Telegraph & Argus * "A deceptively-written thriller that captures the mood of modern society." -- SFBook on The Bad Neighbour * SFBook * "A compelling, dark, and gritty book." -- Audio Killed the Bookmark on The Bad Neighbour * Audio Killed the Bookmark * "An absolutely ripping novel; rollicking, thrilling, twisty; in short, one of the best heist novels I've read this decade, without qualification." -- Kit Power 'David Tallerman brings one of the Twentieth Century's lesser-known incidents - masterminded by one of its greatest monsters - vividly to life.' -- Dave Hutchinson