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Title: What is the sound of a yawn? (Insert here)
Review: This story didn't work very well for me. It was excrutiatingly slow getting out of the blocks, became mildly interesting about one third of the way along, and then bogged down again. Then, it seemed the author decided to insert a most-unlikely love angle, after which, one fortuitious happenstance after another occur. Then we are treated to the bumblingly inefficient Russian army (how convenient), and an overused, transparent ruse at the end. This is very tedious reading of the sort that makes a reader want to demand a refund, not so much, of their money, but rather of their time. Imagine this: A Russian officer referring to a military blunder as, "a cockup"! How much more British could that dialog be, for Christ's sake!
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