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She stepped out expecting bullets to rip into her.
She stepped forward into the minefield of death.
She stepped towards paradise and the sullen border guard didn't stop her.
For Lisa that night, the Berlin Wall fell with a resounding clang.
'The genie is well and truly out of the bottle', thought Mikhail Gorbachev as he watched the scenes of jubilant crowds streaming into the West.
He was right; on 26 December 1991, the Soviet Union itself fell apart.
But what if a new leader of Russia could reverse time?
The trouble is - he can!
Cameron Brock, a time-travelling investigator, must go back 150 years to stop him.
In Stealing Time, Douglas Cumpsty delivers a fast-paced thriller moving between the Great Exhibition in Victorian London to 21st Century Russia. All because of the most famous diamond in the world.