The Man From St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett
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Author: Ken FollettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06-03
ISBN: 0451208706
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: NAL Trade
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Book Review: Among the Many Reasons to Read this Book...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book enjoys continuing popularity twenty eight years after it first hit the bestseller list, and with good reason. It is a masterfully crafted thriller. In fact Albert Zuckerman (Writing the Blockbuster Novel) uses The Man from St. Petersburg as a pedagogical tool for outlining a novel. Zuckerman shows how Follett's outlines of the plot evolved over four outlines. The complexities of plot and the revelation of character did not flow through Follett's fingertips as he was typing. The result is one of the very best novels written, of any genre, and one of the few which deserve its commercial success.
Feliks, a Russian anarchist, is intent on killing the Russian Prince sent by the Tsar to negotiate an alliance with England, to prevent Germany from taking over all of Western Europe. His motivation is to save the lives of Russian peasants who would be killed in a cause not their own. His unwitting ally is the daughter of an English lord, who is at an age when rebellion against her parents is natural. The action builds to a fiery crescendo as the lord's manor house burns, and young Winston Churchill gets the prince's signature on the treaty minutes before the anarchist fires a shotgun point blank into his chest. In the process Follett gives us a rather serious lesson in history. You will understand where all the pieces were on the chessboard that was Europe in 1914.
Read it for the excitement; read it as history; or read it for its classic structure, but you must read it.
Summary of The Man From St. Petersburg
His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg...Literature & Fiction Books
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