![]() ![]() ![]() The characters seemed a little unbelievable, but I think they have to in a spy novel about Russia. The author writes beautiful work, he just needs to jump into the plot a bit faster. I was glad to reach the end, which was moderately satisfying, but I can’t forget the slow start. Once I started to be engaged in his story, the book read really fast. I didn’t connect or sympathize with the main character until well over 100 pages in so I didn’t want to read it. ![]() Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. ![]()
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