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Tom Rob Smith


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in London, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1979

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Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was raised in London where he lives today. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. After these studies, he worked as a scriptwriter.

His first novel, Child 44, about a series of child murders in Stalinist Russia, appeared in early 2008 and was translated into 17 languages. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year by the Crime Writer's Association. It was recently a Barnes & Noble recommended book. On July 29, 2008 the book was named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In November 2008, he was nominated for
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Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)

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The Farm

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The Secret Speech (Leo Demi...

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Agent 6 (Leo Demidov, #3)

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Cold People

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Child 44 and The Secret Spe...

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Tom Rob Smith Trilogy

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London Spy: The Complete Sc...

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“There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.”
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
Tom Rob Smith, Agent 6

“To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.”
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44

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Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1) by Tom Rob Smith
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MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
 
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