The Man From St. Petersburg
by: Ken Follett
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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...
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...
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Rating: - The man from St. Petersburg.
Like all the books of Ken Follett they start slowly but afterawhile you can't stop reading.
Rating: 
- A somewhat contrived novel
Thankfully we have a nearer to contemporary novel to compare this one to:The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Conrad. The police were more of an after the fact bunch than a proactive on top of the job bunch in this novel.
International trading of the sort in this treaty was more behind very closed doors?
The novel makes a very good one of bringing in the Irish, women's rights
besides the European anarchists.
The result is pretty much an after ... Read More
Rating: 
- should have been a comedy
Like being trapped in a Russian novel headed nowhere.The daughter, eighteen years of age in the book, set in the years before WWI, has the mind of a six-year-old.For instance, she didn't know "where babies come from" or the gestation period of a human fetus.Such intelligence does, however, make her perfect fodder for the sophomoric sawhorses of socialism, so obviously embraced by Mr. Follett in the telling.
The protagonist, I suppose, is Feliks, the irresistable (to the ladies)Russian ... Read More
Rating: - Dissapointing
I've enjoyed Ken Follett's past books, and being interested in this time period specifically I thought this book would be a natural for me. Not so...
I found most of the characters unsympathetic to just downright pathetic.Feliks was the best of the lot, but I wasn't sure what the author was trying to tell us about him.One moment he's a hardened revolutionary who would would gladly kill a policeman, the next he's torn bewtween his ideals and love--next he's risking everyone he ... Read More
Rating: 
- HISTORY & SUSPENSE
This is what I want in a novel! I learned quite a bit about a "slice" of history that I knew very little about before: primarily London just before WW1 and, to a lesser extent, a sample of heinous cruelty delegated by many of the Russian 'nobility' (1895). For readers who prefer to sort of whet their appetites before diving into extensive historical studies, this presents the best of both worlds-a history primer entwined with one of the most suspenseful & captivating novels!
- The man from St. Petersburg.Like all the books of Ken Follett they start slowly but afterawhile you can't stop reading.
- A somewhat contrived novelThankfully we have a nearer to contemporary novel to compare this one to:The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Conrad. The police were more of an after the fact bunch than a proactive on top of the job bunch in this novel.
International trading of the sort in this treaty was more behind very closed doors?
The novel makes a very good one of bringing in the Irish, women's rights
besides the European anarchists.
The result is pretty much an after ... Read More
- should have been a comedyLike being trapped in a Russian novel headed nowhere.The daughter, eighteen years of age in the book, set in the years before WWI, has the mind of a six-year-old.For instance, she didn't know "where babies come from" or the gestation period of a human fetus.Such intelligence does, however, make her perfect fodder for the sophomoric sawhorses of socialism, so obviously embraced by Mr. Follett in the telling.
The protagonist, I suppose, is Feliks, the irresistable (to the ladies)Russian ... Read More
- Dissapointing I've enjoyed Ken Follett's past books, and being interested in this time period specifically I thought this book would be a natural for me. Not so...
I found most of the characters unsympathetic to just downright pathetic.Feliks was the best of the lot, but I wasn't sure what the author was trying to tell us about him.One moment he's a hardened revolutionary who would would gladly kill a policeman, the next he's torn bewtween his ideals and love--next he's risking everyone he ... Read More
- HISTORY & SUSPENSEThis is what I want in a novel! I learned quite a bit about a "slice" of history that I knew very little about before: primarily London just before WW1 and, to a lesser extent, a sample of heinous cruelty delegated by many of the Russian 'nobility' (1895). For readers who prefer to sort of whet their appetites before diving into extensive historical studies, this presents the best of both worlds-a history primer entwined with one of the most suspenseful & captivating novels!
