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There is just something fun about well written late 70s to mid 80s spy thrillers. They all tend to be a little fantastical, bordering on silly, but they're just entertaining is some sort of base way. Whether it be unrepentant nazi's having another attempt at world domination, a brain washed CIA agent, or in the case with this book, Russians raised from childhood in America, indoctrinated in to the Soviet system and able to reach the highest levels of the US Government once they've become adults. Well outside the realms of possibility, but in a pair of good hands, entertaining non-the-less.
I read of bunch of Robert Ludlum when I was twelve and thirteen (it's what my Grandfather had around the house. The copy I read now was one I had given him in '82), but really haven't picked up any since. There is action, but not over-the-top. There is some brief sex, but nothing terribly graphic (I wouldn't have a problem with a twelve year old reading it (or at least my parents didn't). They'd probably spend most of the time wondering what the hell the Soviet Union is, but there you go). It's a book of it's time and written at a time when Robert Ludlum was top of his game. ( )

398/75-Βασιζόμενη στις ταινίες που είχα δει ( κακώς ) σε βιβλία του εν λόγω συγγραφέα , απογοητεύτηκα . Μέχρι τη μέση το βιβλίο το λες και βαρετό . Μυριάδες περιγραφές από μετακινήσεις, εμπλεκομένους και σκηνές υποτιθέμενης δράσης . Περιέργως το βιβλίο αρχίζει και γίνεται ενδιαφέρον από τη στιγμή ( περίπου στη μέση του ) όταν αποκαλύπτεται ο κακός της ιστορίας κι έχουμε ένα αγώνα δρόμου ποιος θα προλάβει ποιόν. Αναμενόμενο το τέλος . ( )

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