The Man from St. Petersburg, (Paperback)

from tmph

Not great writing, overall plot, or characters, but eminently readable. I stayed with it all because of the depiction of the anarchist. I was amazed that a pop writer and novel would be, if not necessarily sympathetic, at least fully descriptive of reasoning and thoughts of the anarchist. Good fo...

from richardgarside

Good fast moving fiction with a deal of historical characters and detail

from Carmenere

This was my first Follett and I was certainly impressed. He weaves an interesting story related to events taking place in England, France, Germany and Russia in 1914 and interjects another story line concerning a respected, aristocratic family who has based their life together on lies, secrets an...

from SLuce

Read on trip to India and Singapore. Very good airplane read.

from jeffome

So, my busy life seems to have kept me from reviewing books as soon as i have finished them, but i am still going to go back a few months and share whatever thoughts i have still retained since completing 10 different books. I begin with this Follett piece. I was convinced i had read this in the ...