A Traitor's Heart

‘A cleverly constructed thriller’ * Sunday Times. *‘A fantastically tense atmosphere, thickly spread with historical detail, makes this a spine-tingling page-turner’ * The Sun *‘Enthralling … The dark story is leavened with sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit’ * Financial Times *‘Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin’s Leningrad in all its beauty and misery’ * The Times *PRAISE FOR CITY OF GHOSTS: ‘A highly assured and entertaining debut … Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park […] may have a true heir’ The Times. ‘A worthy successor to Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko … A fine and often moving thriller’ Financial Times. ‘Reminded me of Gorky Park, only I liked this tense, complex thriller even better’ James Patterson. ‘Gripping … An excellent start to a new historical crime series’ – Vaseem Khan

Ben Creed is the pseudonym for Chris Rickaby and Barney Thompson. Chris found his way into advertising as a copywriter and, after working for various agencies, started his own called Everything Different. Barney is a classically trained musician who studied under the legendary conducting professor Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory for two years. He is fluent in Russian and is now an editor.