Edward Topol

This book I found less interesting than the other two books by this author. But, still a good book to read.
I think I do not like the female that gives the orders in this book too much. She tends to get hysteric sometimes, too carried away with things. There are reports in this book,just like in the other two,which I liked very much. It shows the way that people were thinking then: nice to read the clerical language the civil servants and police and all other officials use to describe situations. They beat around the bush, afraid to say clearly what is the matter and pack the message in a report that finally says almost nothing.
But, like the author states in his book: no situations or characters in the book have anything to do with reality. :)… (meer)

What I think of this book... Well I'm not so sure.

Maybe I had expected a different book. The others I have read by this author (often in co-authorship with Neznanskij) were more (Soviet-) political crime /thriller books. I always liked them. This book was different.
Not so much a thriller, as well as telling how an attempt to do something (good) fails in the end. I missed tension, I missed the bite in the book that usually keeps me reading.

I did read it in one night, but just because I did not sleep, not because the book was 'unputdownable'.… (meer)