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The Beast In The Red Forest (2014)

by Sam Eastland(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

057128146X (ISBN13: 9780571281466)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

series

Inspector Pekkala

review 1: I so enjoyed earlier entries in this series starring Inspector Pekkala, AKA the Eye of the Emerald, and their setting in Stalinist Russia. This one is just too gritty and violent, and set against a confusing series of events leading to WWII. The interwoven side story of an American autoworker who takes a job at a Ford plant in Moscow in 1936, and the devastating consequences for him and his family, was worth the reading.
review 2: The fifth in the Inspector Pekkala series and I think it's the best yet. I especially enjoyed the sub plot - told in the form of a handful of letters from the husband and wife of an American working class family who travelled to Russia to find work. The letters turn into diplomatic memos and then coded messages as the fate of the Am... moreerican family unfolds. Meanwhile - on the direct orders of Josef Stalin - Pekkala's assistant, Kirov searches for Pekkala, who is missing presumed dead. less

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