Diamond Chariot - Erast Fandorin, Bk 10 Author:Boris Akunin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs.
Boris Akunin -- pen name of Grigori Tchkhartichvili.