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Bezig met laden... Death of a Dissident (1981)door Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A dissident is murdered the night before his trial, and the KGB is anxious for the killing to be unrelated to his political views. In this scenario we meet police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a war veteran, and unconventional detective, involved in a mystery that immerses the reader in Soviet Russia of the 1980's. Very good characters, a believable plot, and a ring of authenticity make this an above average contribution to the mystery genre. Recommended. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:In this mystery introducing a hard-boiled Soviet police inspector, "Kaminsky gets Russia right" (Ed McBain). Aleksander Granovsky has dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the Russian penal system. In two days he will be tried for the crime of smuggling essays to the West. It is a show trial, and there is no doubt he will be convicted and executed, yet before he dies, he intends to tell the truth one more time. But this is Moscow, where death is never heroic. While writing his final speech in his government flat, Granovsky is surprised by an assassin, who pierces his heart with the point of a rusty scythe. The case is given to Porfiry Rostnikov, a veteran Moscow police inspector with a knack for navigating the labyrinths of Soviet bureaucracy. A bruising bear of a man, whose love of weightlifting and American pizza has left him as squat and powerful as a .38 bullet, Rostnikov may be the toughest cop in Moscow. This winter, his challenge is not just to find the killer, but to survive the investigation, as every question he asks takes him closer to exposing the dark heart of the KGB. A Cold Warâ??era hero, Porfiry Rostnikov is "quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko in Gorky Park." (San Francisco Examiner) Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Reading this book gave me a better understanding of what it must have been like back then. Things were not easy in those days. People did what they had to do to get by, and the police often overlooked the petty crimes in order to solve the bigger ones.
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