Author: HARRIS, ROBERT (1957- )
Title: Archangel / Robert Harris
Description: London : Hutchinson 1998. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 388 pages; Physical desc. : 388p. ; 25cm. Subject: Stalin. I. (Iosif). 1879-1953 - Archives - Fiction. Adventure stories ; Moscow (Russia) ; Historians. Summary: Fluke Kelso is a dissipated. middle-aged. former Oxford historian. who is in Moscow to attend a conference on newly-opened Soviet archives. Kelso is visited at his hotel by an old NKVD officer and bodyguard. who claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke. Review: Although Robert Harris produced several fine books after the groundbreaking Fatherland. this masterful thriller was the first to achieve the same kind of impact. The story of Fluke Kelso (a former historian attending a Moscow conference on the newly opened Soviet archives) who is thrown into a nightmare search for long-lost papers from Stalin's dacha on the night he had his fatal stroke is rich in the kind of fastidiously researched historical detail that Harris is famous for. while never losing the impressive thriller momentum that makes this such a powerful book. As Kelso gets nearer to the dark heart of the new Russia. the reader is propelled into a tight spiral of mounting tension --(Kirkus UK).Weight in Kg appr.:

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