Archangel
by:
Robert Harris (author)
When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of...
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When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409021247 (1409021246)
Publish date: September 21st 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Russia,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Crime,
Fiction,
Historical
this is one solid good read from a master wordsmith. i enjoyed every page of this thriller!
My fourth Robert Harris after the excellent [b:Imperium|243601|Imperium (Cicero, #1)|Robert Harris|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1173066789s/243601.jpg|1237325], the satisfactory [b:Pompeii|880|Pompeii|Robert Harris|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320449408s/880.jpg|268880]...
Kelso, einem Geschichtsprofessor aus England, wird in seinem Hotelzimmer in Moskau, wo er sich gerade aufhält, um an einer Tagung teilzunehmen, von einem früheren Geheimdienstmann erzählt, wie Stalin zu Tode kam und dass er ein geheimnisvolles Notizbuch bei sich hatte. Kurz darauf wird der Mann ermo...
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...
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