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Ronan Bennett
Birth date: January 14, 1956
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Barbara's Booky Blog
Barbara's Booky Blog rated it 12 years ago
I might have enjoyed this more if I had an inkling of Russian politics. The situation isn't adequately described. The main protagonists aren't identified other than by name. It was almost impossible to figure out who was who and why things were happening. And throw in the whole chess thing (chess...
SJane
SJane rated it 17 years ago
This is as heavy handed as Fred Flintstone's 5 o'clock shadow. I had it on a trip, and it alone, so I read it to the end. If it had been really bad, I wouldn't have finished, so that's good. It chugged along; there was more sex than I'm used to (eh, "in novels"); there was also torture, the CIA and ...
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