Title: what happened to Robert Harris?
Product review: I thoroughly enjoyed Harris' previous books, which seemed well-written (though occasionally over-written) and engrossing. I was excited to get hold of this...but wow! what a disappointment! This book was a terrible dud--hard to get into, full of nothing but laughable stereotypes. It simply plays to the moronic caricatures of Soviet Man that we were raised on and does not even begin to suggest the causes for the terrible state of much of Russia today. This is a book strung together out of cliches of thriller fiction, including the boring anti-hero--and furthermore the writing is just plain bad.Cheap thrills for the ignorant. I suppose Harris is hoping it sold as a film.I hope the star I gave it is taken as a zero, which was not an option. By the way, I've been to Russia several times, and it was nowhere in this book.
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