Wow. I didn't know starting out on this book that it was based on the Red Ripper. Smith changed the setting to Soviet Russia times where they believed that there was no crime because their system was perfect. He did great research on this book and so many things, even with the change of time, were right on. The way this guy really was. This book was grotesque and shocking. The twist was unexpected. The only thing is that they changed the way Andrei (the Red Ripper) was really found guilty and i didn't like that much but with the way he wrote the book, in the time period he put it in, i don't think there was any other way. In Soviet Russia if he was sentenced the way he was in the late 80's early 90's Leo would've been killed too.
This book was also a very good painting of a communist Russia. I believe that not only did he do his research well for the murderer but also for how Russia was after/during WW2. I really liked this book, after the first few chapters it was slow for a few but picked back up after that. I would definitely recommend it
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