A Great Deliverance

17 hrs. 32 min.

Language Russian

Author Louise Penny

Narrator Pavel Konyshev

Description

The novel “The Very Red-Blooded Man” continues the series of investigations by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. This charming character was created by Louise Penny, the only five-time winner of the Agatha Christie Award in the world.

“Today is the first day for Armand Gamache in the Quebec police, where he returned after a nine-month suspension following a string of ill-considered, disastrous decisions,” the ill-wishers—no, Gamache’s open enemies—write on “Twitter.” Still, the police know: he’s the best. He can act recklessly, daringly, and—whatever they write in their tweets—extremely effectively. And it’s exactly those kinds of decisions the events force upon the senior inspector on his very first working day. A young pregnant woman disappears, and he takes on the investigation, feeling deep (and perhaps unwise) sympathy for her father—after all, the inspector also has an grown daughter! Meanwhile, spring flooding of epic proportions threatens the province of Quebec. A looming catastrophe always brings chaos, and Armand Gamache tries to stand against it. To postpone the search for the missing woman, as his brother-in-law—the senior police inspector—suggests, and deal with more urgent matters in the face of a natural disaster? No. “You can win a battle on one front,” Gamache declares. “But a war is won on many.” The ice on the rivers has already started to move, bridge supports are cracking, and a video has been released online that tarnishes Armand Gamache’s honor… Will he manage to win his war in time?