This is heavy going at times but stick with it and you get a fascinating, thrilling and jaw-dropping story. Under the cover of a historical study of anarchists and state security at the end of the 19th century, Butterworth gives us as much excitement as any Bond or Bourne film. Daring prison esca...
For most, the move abroad was impelled by a simple instinct for self-preservation, while revolutionary evangelism was the motive for others. In the case of Nicholas Chaikovsky, however, his arrival in New York in late 1875, with his heavily pregnant wife, had a quite different explanation. For wh...