Leon Etinger is the owner of an amazing voice and many other talents, the last descendant of a thoroughly convoluted and turbulent Odessa family history. The former singing boy becomes an operative in one of the serious special services, acquires a strange nickname “K?nar rusí?” (“Russian canary”), and, over time, becomes a star of the opera stage. But since the intelligence’s anti-terrorist unit doesn’t want to let the former employee go, Leon is forced to combine a countertenor’s career with a secret—and very dangerous—“hunt.” This hunt takes him to Thailand, where he discovers answers to some important questions and meets a strange, deaf vagrant holding a camera in her hands.
“Voice” is the second book of Dina Rubina’s trilogy “The Russian Canary,” a family saga about “two descendants of one canary” who met despite all odds.