Books by Kevin Baker
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review 1: The premise of this story was a good one - a really good one. But the dialogue was so hard to read (it was done like an old black -and-white detective movie - schmaltzy and stilted, y'know dame?) and the narrative was overly descriptive (like reading a Stephen King book - how we...
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review 1: An excellent graphic novel. Much darker than Kevin Baker's prose novels, about a low-level Russian mob enforcer in Coney Island who was formerly a soldier in Chechnya. Although most of the "action" is in Brooklyn, it constantly drifts back to wars throughout Russian history. His ...
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review 1: The worlds of Russian hardship and American dreams collide in Kevin Baker's historical fiction world of Luna Park. Former soldier Alik Streinikov is a man who has seen his ideals shatter like glass around him. Initially indoctrinated into the Russian army as a means of making som...