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Bezig met laden... Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense (editie 2010)door Sam Eastland
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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. The main character is quite interesting, and the historical aspects are also very well done, but the plot itself feels weak in places -- just the idea that would drive by car through Siberia to find the one abandoned mine shaft... I am not sure how this is going to be turned into a series. But if you are into Russia/Soviet Union in the 1910s/20s you may find this interesting. Wikipedia has informed that this was Paul Watkins, one of my very favorite authors, writing under a pseudonym. I'm not sure I completely detected Watkins in this novel, I did enjoy the writing and the development of the characters but I found the plotting a bit weak. Jumping back and forth in time was mostly effective but I felt it really highlighted how thin the current plot was. For the master detective, Pekkala seemed to miss things that I, a plain old mystery reader, picked up on. But it was well-written and did give me a totally different sense of place, needed on a hot day in pandemic time. I enjoyed this new to me series starring Inspector Pekkala. The time period was fascinating. I liked the new twist on a surviving Romanov family member. Pekkala was an interesting character and I liked how Eastland went back and forth between past and present in his life. It really helped you understand him as a character. I especially loved the dynamic Eastland built between Pekkala and his brother. I wish that could have been developed even more. The ending was a tad of a let down, but it does allow for the series to continue, so I can forgive it.
The see-saw narrative is a perfect ploy for a thriller, taking in both the dying embers of the Romanov era and the wake-up call that would follow with the purges and the famines, the assassinations and torture chambers. Pervading this breakneck novel is the sense of an age when personal security was a fallacy, to be trusted no more than the medicinal qualities of the raw vodka knocked back in the taverns. This is a country that has thrown itself out of the frying pan and into the fire. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: "A triumph! With a canny eye for detail, Eastland re-creates the tragedy of the Romanov dynasty in this intelligent and relentless thriller." . HTML:BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sam Eastland's Shadow Pass. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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Characters and plotting interesting .
will definitely try next in the series
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