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...FROM ST. PETERSBURG by Ken Follett Morrow; 323 pages...
This scenario is shrewdly amplified by an expert in the art of ransacking history for thrills. British Novelist Ken Follett, 32, rewrote World War II in The Eye of the Needle and reinterpreted Middle East tensions in Triple. In The Man from St. Petersburg, he recalls Russia and England during the days just before the Great War. As always, his plot is eerily plausible...
Feliks, the son of a poor country priest elects to assassinate Prince Orlov. The "anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively...
...Rebecca, Follett...
...Rebecca, Follett...