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.Seven of his entourage know hissecret. Now his beloved nieceValija invites two of their Britishfriends, Elizabeth Templeton andMichael Brenan, to stay—whomay or may not know the secret.