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...FALL OF A TITAN (629 pp.)-Igor Gouzenko-Norton...
Nine years ago Igor Gouzenko walked out of his job as code clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa and into world headlines. From his briefcase Gouzenko produced 109 startling documents which laid bare the Russian atomic espionage network in North America and paved the way to the conviction of British Physicists Klaus Fuchs and Allan Nunn May, the Rosenbergs and half a dozen others who stole allied atomic secrets for the Kremlin. Except for acting as a government witness in numerous spy trials, Gouzenko has since shown himself only with a mask over his head, and lived with...
...Gouzenko's fiction is not, could not be, as explosive as his facts. The Fall of a Titan, a midsummer choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no literary blockbuster, but it does score a direct hit on modern Soviet man and the system that has shaped him. It reveals, despite occasional amateurish moments, that Gouzenko has a professional flair; he travels this long literary distance at an unflagging and often exciting pace...
...warfare with Mikhail Gorin, an old and honored writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin. Gorin, the titan of the title, is intentionally modeled on Russia's late great writer, Maxim Gorky, and in chronicling his fall Author Gouzenko stages scenes with other Russian VIPs, e.g., Stalin, Malenkov, Beria (who wears the name Veria, plus the identifying pince...
...Since Gouzenko evidently preferred it that way, the government finally decided to let him go ahead on his own. Nobody was happier than the Mounties. For some time now, assignment to the temperamental Russian has been regarded as one of the "punishment" duties on the force...