Petrograd

Assigned a job he never wanted, Cleary, an unwilling agent of British intelligence, is handed the hardest mission of his career: arranging the murder of Grigoi Rasputin, the self-styled holy man whose hold on the Russian imperial family has made him one of the most powerful figures in the country. Cleary must bargain with the secret police, move through the corridors of government, and deal with violent revolutionaries as Russia teeters on the brink of revolution.