Untraceable Audiobook

Quotes

• “A thriller dipped in poison…[that] shares some of le Carré’s fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil.”

  — New York Times

• “The absence of evidence makes accounts from the living, such as this courageous novel, all the more significant.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “A taut spy thriller with Gothic flourishes…[and] insight into the psychological effects of poisoning, literal and metaphorical.”

  — The Economist (London)

• “[A] le Carré-ish plot…Lebedev’s fiction excavates what lies beneath: the inner lives of earlier generations, buried under layers of official myth and self-deceit.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “[An] excellent translation…There is an elegance, and urgency, to the narrative’s slow unfolding of secrets and memories. Untraceable invites us to look at what has been hidden in plain sight.”

  — Los Angeles Review of Books

• “Intense…intelligent and stunning, Untraceable is a character-driven thriller about the price of control.”

  — Foreword Reviews (starred review)

• “Probing the…horrors that science casually inflicts on people, animals, and the environment…A darkly absorbing intellectual thriller.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “One of Russia’s most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison, and power in…a fascinating window on modern Russia.”

  — Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author

• “Enthralling and exquisite, by one of modern Russia’s finest writers.”

  — Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

• “The darkest impulses of science and power cross paths with human error and plots gone awry in Sergei Lebedev’s incisive and all-too-plausible Russian novel.”

  — Will Englund, Pulitzer Prize–winning former Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post

• “Lebedev has perceived what was invisible to most Soviet and post-Soviet writers.”

  — Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Blizzard