Archangel (Robert Harris novel)

Aurora is a novel by British writer Robert Harris. The original title in English is " Archangel ". The thriller focuses on the research by a British historian in the Stalinist past of Russia, while the author linked fiction with historical facts. The book was published on 21 September 1998 under the original English title Archangel in Hutchinson / Random House, the German translation in the same year by Heyne Verlag.

The novel was filmed in 2005 as The Archangel with Daniel Craig.

Action

The British historian Fluke Kelso takes part in a conference in Moscow. There he meets Papu Rapava, who was the bodyguard of the intelligence chiefs Lawrenti Beria earlier. Rapava reports to the British by the legacies that made his boss disappear after Stalin's death. After the disappearance Rapawas to Kelso sets out to find the hiding place of the alleged documents. In the course of his research to include him the American journalist O'Brian and the daughter Rapawas, Zinaida, at. The opposite side to the old Stalinists Mamantow is also interested in the hidden Good. Near the city of Arkhangelsk Kelso encounters a hitherto unknown, living in the wild son of Stalin. Ultimately, it is clear that Kelso had been deceived as representative of the West and exploited in order to pave the way for Stalin's legacy.