by Robert Harris
this is one solid good read from a master wordsmith. i enjoyed every page of this thriller!
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Set in Yeltsin's Russia, Archangel is an intellingent, tightly-plotted literary page-turner, revolving around the discovery of a secret notebook belonging to Stalin and kept hidden from the world for sixty years. Fluke Kelso, its hero, is a populist historian whose career has never really lived up t...
Robert Harris is the author of the very successful and previously reviewed Fatherland, the kind of novel I usually do not read because it relies on the “what if” kind of assumptions that I find trite and silly. But that novel worked quite well. It assumed that Hitler had won the war, that he had suc...