Birth of an Assassin is written by Rik Stone and set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia. The book tells the story of Jez Kornfeld, a young wide eyed recruit to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalised corruption, the elite Jewish soldier is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems, nobody can be trusted, and everything can be violently torn from him.