Moscow: Zakharov, 2008. 272 pages, paperback. ISBN: 978-5-8159-0958-8.It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its difficulties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to reunite with her respected comrade and fiance. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a
