Perfect Witness

“Why shouldn’t those Balticprovinces stew in their ownjuice for a while?” says Stalin, notlong before dying in offi ce. ThePresident of the Baltic PeoplesRepublic, Marshal Jurgis Tievas,after an ill-fated visit to socialistBritain, returns to Gdainys to fi ndhimself besieged by domesticenemies. Nor is he comfortedby being an impostor, thedouble of the Marshal who wasinadvertently killed in Britain...