A Game of Illusions
A son of silence must choose between loyalty, love, and a dangerous truth.
The Executioner’s Son
In the spiritual heart of Russia, where the monasteries of Suzdal have become prisons of the Gulag, spring thaw pushes old graves to the surface. It is 1953, the year Stalin dies, and a teenage boy meets a girl who uses the spell of a fairy tale to deflect brutality. He is Danton, the son of an NKVD officer. She is Ekaterina, a girl who dreams of freedom beyond the seventh sea.
Years later, as a young officer, Danton is drawn into the hidden world of military deception. His past collides with Ekaterina, who now belongs to a powerful Soviet family. Their dangerous bond could cost them everything.
Caught between the shadow of his father’s trade, loyalty to his country, and a love that could destroy him, Danton steps into a game of illusion where truth itself is the most dangerous enemy.
From the gulags of Suzdal to the battlefields of Southeast Asia, this is a story of masks, betrayal, and impossible love in the long war between East and West.