Boriss Akunin „Azazel“
While talking to Lady Astair, Fandorin suddenly realizes
that Cunningham was too young to have started Azazel, and that Lady Astair is the real criminal mastermind.
Lady Astair confesses to Fandorin, admitting that she is the head of Azazel. She tells him that her Astair Houses are part of a
plot to train bright young orphan boys to serve her and her group, which plans to eventually take over the world. She then
tells one of her servants, the German professor Blank, to give Fandorin a lobotomy so that they may retrain him as a member
of Azazel, but Fandorin escapes and confronts Lady Astair, who is waiting for him with a bomb. Lady Astair traps him with
her, but after Fandorin begs for his life, she lets him go in return for a promise to not hunt down her "children" from the
Astair Houses. Lady Astair then appears to commit suicide with her bomb.
Fandorin, however, is ordered to help the campaign to root out members of Azazel in Russia, which he does. His guilt at
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