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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 037540418X
ISBN-13: 9780375404184
Jan 1999
Publisher: Random House
Abridged
Language: English |
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| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
'The dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue,' a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. . . . Kelso and a TV reporter head up . . . [to Archangel], followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they find, to no one's surprise, is that not everyone in the new, modern Russia thinks Stalin was a bloodstained disaster. . . . Harris, a master of umbrous what-ifs, is at his best here.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Skow
Just as in Harris's first blockbuster, 'Fatherland,' which was premised on Nazi Germany's victory in World War II, [the] quasi-historical backdrop is a nifty device. The main protagonists are perfectly at odds with each other. . . . Harris splices in glimpses of the new Russia and its splashy wealth, decadence and desperation. As Kelso races across Moscow and then to Russia's far north to discover Stalin's secret, readers will need to suspend their disbelief at times. But thriller lovers are used to this. What they may not realize is how accurate Kelso's portrayal of Stalin and the monstrous system he created is. And how plausible his--or Harris's--case is that Stalinism is far from buried. Harris has written a zinger precisely because in Russia, past or present, virtually nothing is too absurd to be possible.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Nagorski
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