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Rode Oorlog (2009)

by Alex Dryden(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Boekerij

series

Anna Resnikov

review 1: If you’ve been craving a moody, Russian tragedy cloaked as a thriller, I recommend this book. However, anyone craving any actual action or a cohesive story is in for a disappointment. The book has plenty of intriguing factors, but its protagonist is the least interesting character within and she does little but ruminate and reminisce about whatever everyone else is doing.It was the end of the cold war when Anna, an attractive KGB agent often used as a honey trap, meets Finn, an MI6 agent stationed in Moscow. They are charged by their governments to learn everything they can about each other and repeat it, but Finn and Anna fall in love. Finn comes across a dangerous scheme and goes off the reservation when his government calls him home. Before he leaves, he asks Ann... morea to run away with him and tells her he loves her. Then they separate while he cooks up a plan of action.After this point, the timeline of events is rather jumbled and confusing, made all the more inaccessible by Anna’s disconnection from everything. The action is all with Finn, who is absent for much of the story. What we learn of his activities is gleaned by Anna reading his journals while she waits for him after the fact. Anna also comes across as far too clingy for the youngest female colonel in the KGB.The ending didn’t endear me any either. When I thought about it, it was rather cliché for a novel with a Russian heroine. I have a feeling this book will appeal to a number of readers, but it was simply not to my taste.
review 2: Very interesting read! Set in Russia, and all over Europe as well as Great Britain, this spy novel sets out such a real scenario I had to Google the author who was obviously British! I eventually found an interview that explained he is not only a journalist who was actually present when things happened in the Soviet Union, but he is so afraid for his life that he writes with a pen name so as not to be discovered and killed by the very real presence of the KGB! less

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