A lot of excellent detail that sadly didn't add up to a good story.I picked up this novel at my local bookstore without having read anything about it before. With all that was happening in the Ukraine at the time, I thought this might be an enjoyable book.There is no doubt that the author did his...
The monument stood at the top of a hill at the place called Balaclava and looked out over the city and beyond it to the sea from where invaders had always come until Hitler attacked Sevastopol from the land. To the left, the mouth of the Kerch Straits was at its widest before the straits entered ...
I was exhausted, beaten, but I didn’t want to rest until I was at my final destination. Finn picked me up at the airport and on the way back to his flat I told him everything. ‘I’ve left,’ I told Finn. ‘Vladimir turned out to be the good guy.’ ‘He saved your life,’ Finn said simply. ‘And he saved...
Its departure was taking her sanity with it. She was no longer aware that she was standing in a courtyard, her own garden; she no longer felt the clothes against her skin or the sun on her face. She felt something violent at her shoulders, something that shook her so hard the fragments of thought...