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'Bond' star plays historian in Ion TV mystery

Daniel Craig, star of the James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace” due out Nov. 14, plays an Oxford historian-turned-detective in the British thriller “Archangel,” airing at 8 p.m. Oct. 24 on Ion Television.

Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, Craig stars as Fluke Kelso in this three-hour mystery-thriller that revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia.

His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist bodyguard leads to the uncovering of one of the world’s most dangerous and best-kept secrets. He’s led through murder and intrigue across Moscow and up to northern Russia toward his own holy grail — Joseph Stalin’s secret legacy, a legacy that could change the face of Russian history forever.

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