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The Holy Thief (2010)

by William Ryan(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0312586450 (ISBN13: 9780312586454)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev

review 1: I gave up on this book. I found that it's quite badly edited. Although the story started out really good, the middle part became really boring really quickly. I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped. The way that the stuttering man's speaking parts are written are pretty annoying and not quite elegant, which I think makes it hard to take the writer and the book seriously. A pity, because the story had a great starting point. I'm very interested in pre-WWII Russia, but this just doesn't cut it for me.
review 2: Friends who enjoy the Bernie Gunther novels of Philip Kerr will enjoy this series, I'm betting. Moscow Militia Captain Korolev is an amalgam of classic detective staples, but his man-of-few-words, tough-guy traits gibe perfectly with the historical era tha... moret frames this tale -- that of late 1930s Soviet Russia. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the conversational one-upsmanship that went on between our moral hero/cop and a hardened NKVD major during an interrogation in the Lubianka. In fact, there are more than a few great character set-ups like this one, where you can't wait for the snappy dialogue to begin. The theft of an important religious icon is at the center of this first book in the Korolev series. (I've already started book two.) less

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