You might read the description of this book and think, oh, geez, yet another book about World War II. What is it about this particular war, in a long history of ugly wars, that drives people to keep exploring it from every possible angle? I've read about this war from every conceivable front and so ...
This story was slow at times, but I really liked it. Cenzo may have been just a simple fisherman, but he was smarter than most people thought. Which he showed throughout the book over and over again. I really liked his character a lot. I especially liked what he told his dead brother's wife, boy was...
"Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman’s body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is ...
Cenzo Vianello has been sitting out the war, fishing his family’s waters in the lagoons off of Venice and avoiding Germans, Italian fascists, partisans, and the war on the mainland. He served in Mussolini’s Abyssinian War and that was enough for him. He might have managed to get through the entire S...
At one point in Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith, one of Arkady Renko’s temporary partners turns to the battered detective and asks, “Renko, do you ever feel like the plague?” (248*). At this point, Renko has been attacked a couple of times. His partner in Moscow has been killed. A couple of witness...
After Arkady Renko’s last case (Gorky Park) ended in a Phyrric victory, he was interned in a Soviet hospital and diagnosed with “sluggish schizophrenia.” (The theory behind this diagnosis was that anyone who acted against the state was clearly insane.) Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Polar Star begins a f...
Arkady Renko is an honest man. But he lives in a place at a time when honest men just don't fit. As a chief investigator for the prosecutor general of Moscow in the late 1970s, Renko is surrounded by careerists, villains, thieves, murderers, psychopaths, and schemers. While everyone is looking out f...
"What did you think?" asked Goodreads. I answered, "I don't know."The depictions of Cuban culture keeps me enthralled. That is definitely the most intriguing part of the book for me. I have no idea if it's accurate, but it does paint Cuba as lively and vibrant and also sad. On the other hand, the pl...
So this is a spy novel. Sorta. So this is a love story. Kinda, as long as you ignore the fact that the romance sub-plot feels a bit contrived and is totally more of a Hollywood type love plot. You know the kind they throw in because they think women li...
Everybody plays the fool...sometime.There's no exception to the rule - listen baby!It may be factual, it may be cruel...I ain't lying.Everybody plays the fool. - AARON NEVILLE When the lie becomes the truth, when the fool wields all the power, when there are no rules, and exceptions abound....be...
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