After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the monarchy and Atlanta lawyer, Miles Lord, is in Moscow to perform a background check on one of the tsarist candidates. But when he is nearly killed by gunmen, and a mysterious Russian steers him toward the writings of Rasputin, Miles suddenly finds himself racing across continents in search of what really happened to the family of Russia's last tsar. --P. [2] of cover.