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Bezig met laden... To Kill a Tsar (2010)door Andrew Williams
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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. Un hombre. Una oportunidad. Rusia, 1879. Un atentado contra la vida del zar Alejandro II lo deja ileso pero revela una conspiración muy profunda. El presunto asesino es apresado y poco después colgado. Entre sus posesiones se encuentra una lista de nombres que dará pistas a la policía para descubrir a los demás conspiradores. Porque Rusia está llena de conspiradores: movimientos revolucionarios organizados han comprendido que, para lograr un cambio, es necesario tomar acciones dramáticas; ya no valen medias tintas ni posiciones seudoconciliadoras como la del doctor Frederick Hadfield, un inglés que vive en San Petersburgo y que se verá más involucrado de lo que quisiera con el grupo de conspiradores…
As well as Dostoyevsky's The Devils, there are echoes here of Conrad in the unsparing picture of terrorist cells; but Williams, despite his well-turned prose, is essentially a popular writer, plying these themes in straightforward fashion. The book is none the worse for that, and the bravura of the storytelling registers strongly, even if the moral dilemmas of hero and heroine might have been more thoroughly excavated. Nevertheless, To Kill a Tsar is proof that Williams is the real thing: a writer who can marry popular genres to the sophisticated treatments of political arguments.
This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar 'confirms Andrew William's place in the front ranks of English thriller writers' (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters and the Walter Scott Awards, To Kill a Tsar will appeal to readers of John le Carre, Robert Harris and Alan Furst. St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the melee no one notices a striking dark haired young woman in a heavy coat slip away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries. While Tsar Alexander II remains a virtual prisoner in his own palaces, his ruthless secret police will stop at nothing to unmask those who plot his assassination and the overthrow of the Imperial regime. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, whose medical practice is dependent on the Anglo-Russian gentry, these are dangerous times. Drawn into a desperate cat-and-mouse game of undercover assignations, plot and counter-plot, he risks all in a perilous double life.From glittering ballrooms to the cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the grandeur of the British Embassy to the underground presses of the young revolutionaries, To Kill a Tsar is a gripping thriller set in a world of brutal contrasts in which treachery is everywhere and nothing is what it seems. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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