Running a small errand for the British Intelligence Service turns into a nightmare for a young man when he is arrested by the Soviet Secret Police and sentenced to 15 years in a desolate labour camp............Gerald Seymor's books all have a certain thing in common. They inevitably deal with one person (or a very small group of people) pitted against a formidable enemy and tasked with some single purpose to which they devote all their energy. Perhaps because he was once a journalist, these books all have the ring of truth. The smell of reality is thick on every page and the protagonists, though often 'heros' in some limited sense of the term, are very real and fallible human beings. Sometimes they don't succeed and often they don't even survive. And even when they do survive, there tends to be a tragic sense of the cost involved.
In _Archangel_, the protagonist, imprisoned in a Soviet prison camp in the Gulag, wages a one man war against the camp and the system that supports it. His victories, even the small ones, provide a great deal of pleasure to the reader. Unlike the typical stoic inmate portrayed by Solzhenitsn in _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch_, Seymor's protagonist is a 'free' man who feels the unjustness of his imprisonment deeply and fights it at every turn.
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of t...
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