This is really a muddled mess of a novel, especially through the middle when the author is deploying misdirection as hard and as often as he can--in this case, just about to the point of turning the story into an unreadable stain. I did finish the thing, but the going isn't really worth the go; all the muddle and mess just wreaks hell with the pacing and the suspension of disbelief, and goes a long way to demonstrating that maybe the Cold War Spy Novel is best treated as a historical artifact, if not just left in the past.
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
This really just flat didn't work for me. I thought it was going to something other than it was, I guess. I should have taken a closer...

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A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
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Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese . America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's makin...
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Oh, gawds, this novel starts as a bit of a mess and wraps up like someone who read too much Naturalistic fiction and decided to go with no...
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