Dead bodies in Siberia are nothing new Russia's easternmost province has been the Soviet Union's unofficial graveyard since the Revolution But the bodies that are turning up now are different - some mutilated, some half-eaten, bizarre deaths impossible to explain in the usual way When Colonel Georgi Lazin of Russia's Federal Security Service is sent east to investigate, he suspects his political masters do not necessarily want him to find the perperators But is his mission in fact a death sentence?