Title: Glacial Pace
Product review: This book opens with a fast-paced series of scenes involving a promising hero and his partner, who, alas, are quickly killed off. Then the REAL story begins, rather like a locomotive pulling too much freight: very s-l-o-w-l-y. The freight is a ton of background information about the miseries of modern Russia, and the author wants us to have it all. After 60 pages, the train hadn't even left the station, and I gave up. There may be a great story there somewhere in the next 380 pages, but the author didn't make it worth my while to find out.
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