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Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely speaking, lives up the promise of its Fleming-Dagger-winning predecessor, despite being a very different book: Ex-MGB officer Leo Dormidov returns and becomes involved in a narrative so incident-packed it makes the earlier book seem positively sedate.
The most memorable thing about the first novel, of course, was the moral transformation of the hero, initially a charismatic tool of the brutal state apparatus, enforcing the Stalin-era edicts with grim efficiency until he becomes hunted rather hunter and earns some hard-won humanity. Part of the point of Child 44 was the protagonist’s journey of character – so how to follow this, when Leo has become a human being by the end of the first novel?
The Secret Speech performs this tricky balancing act by taking the reader back to 1949, with Leo the unreformed agent of the state, behaving with the callousness he once possessed before his life was turned upside down. We are then taken to the mid-fifties, after the death of Stalin (as cracks begin to show in the totalitarian Soviet State). Khrushchev’s famous denunciation of the Stalin era ushers in significant changes, and Leo Dormidov (along with his wife Raisa and their daughters) are in danger, as the power of the police is undercut – and, in fact, the police are now identified as enemies of the state. This is only one of the dangers that Leo faces: there is now a ruthless enemy on his trail – as ruthless as Leo was himself in the days of his authority and acclaim.
There is no denying that the bracing innovation of the first book (in what is to be a trilogy) burns at a lower wattage here – that’s inevitable – but Smith is too adroit a writer not to keep us comprehensively gripped (breathless, even, as climax after climax is piled into a crowded narrative). --Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Ein Roman vor dem Hintergrund der Sowiet Union der fünfziger Jahre: Leo Demodov, russischer Undercover Agent, soll im Staatsauftrag die Kirche des Priesters Lazar verhindern. Nichts einfacher als das, er verbannt Lazar in den Gulag. Als Jahre später ein vertrauliches Dokument mit Lazars Adresse auftaucht, wird Demodov von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt.
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After having read "Child 44" I was really looking forward to reading this novel. However, it wasn't nearly as good. Although the characters are very clearly portrayed I found the plot a bit too, how should I say, too all-encompassing. It was as if the author wanted to cover too much; a dysfunctional family, a kidnapping, betrayal, prison ships, prison camps and the Hungarian uprising. As a result, the novel was nowhere near as good as the first. A pity because the time and location touched upon gives a great deal to write about - but not all in one novel.
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"Child 44" was always going to be a hard act to follow. And it shows in this book, "The Secret Speech". This book is extremely good but it struggles in many places and also gets a little sluggish. But the writing is still strong and the plot solid.
Leo Demidov is working as the head of his newly installed Homicide Department but it is a department which is not trusted by the militia and which is constantly monitored by the KGB. He picks up a case where a printer commits suicide after being ordered to print out a speech by a high ranking party official. He later learns that the speech is by Stalin's successor, Khrushchev, in which he apologises for Stalin's actions. But why does this make the printer commit suicide?
Meanwhile Leo has many problems at home with one of the two orphaned children we met in the last book, Zoya. She blames Leo for the death of her parents and she starts to hate all communists. When the KGB orders Khrushchev's speech to be read out in all schools and Zoya goes crazy, Leo and Raisa think she will be arrested.
When two gangsters arrive in the guise of the KGB to kidnap Zoya, their female leader gives Leo an ultimatum - rescue my husband from the Siberian gulags or I will kill your daughter. Leo decides to go undercover as an arrested criminal and be taken to the Siberian gulag where the man is being held and then break him out - because that's the only way he can save Zoya.
And the plot doesn't stop there......it keeps on going! I don't want to spoil the ending.
As I said, don't expect something as brilliant as "Child 44". But "The Secret Speech" comes damn close. If "Child 44" was a 10, "Secret Speech" would be a 9.2. I read Smith's working on a Demidov trilogy. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
Leo Demidov is working as the head of his newly installed Homicide Department but it is a department which is not trusted by the militia and which is constantly monitored by the KGB. He picks up a case where a printer commits suicide after being ordered to print out a speech by a high ranking party official. He later learns that the speech is by Stalin's successor, Khrushchev, in which he apologises for Stalin's actions. But why does this make the printer commit suicide?
Meanwhile Leo has many problems at home with one of the two orphaned children we met in the last book, Zoya. She blames Leo for the death of her parents and she starts to hate all communists. When the KGB orders Khrushchev's speech to be read out in all schools and Zoya goes crazy, Leo and Raisa think she will be arrested.
When two gangsters arrive in the guise of the KGB to kidnap Zoya, their female leader gives Leo an ultimatum - rescue my husband from the Siberian gulags or I will kill your daughter. Leo decides to go undercover as an arrested criminal and be taken to the Siberian gulag where the man is being held and then break him out - because that's the only way he can save Zoya.
And the plot doesn't stop there......it keeps on going! I don't want to spoil the ending.
As I said, don't expect something as brilliant as "Child 44". But "The Secret Speech" comes damn close. If "Child 44" was a 10, "Secret Speech" would be a 9.2. I read Smith's working on a Demidov trilogy. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
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The Secret Speech ist die gelungene Fortsetzung von Child 44, die vor allem wieder durch Beschreibungen geschichtlicher Ereignisse glänzt. Während diese scheinbar gut recherchiert sind, gibt es einen gefühlten Bruch zwischen Historie und der darin eingebetteten fiktiven Handlung. Das Setting ist gut beschrieben (der Autor verweist im Anhang auch auf zahlreiche Quellen), die Handlungen und Dialoge dagegen teilweise etwas plump. An den bis kurz vor Schluss spannenden Aufbau des ersten Teils kommt das Buch nicht ran. Dennoch empfehlenswert für alle, die schon vom ersten Teil begeistert waren. Auch den angekündigten dritten Band werde ich kaufen in der Hoffnung, dass der Autor nicht überhastet etwas Halbgares auf den Markt wirft.
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Fantastisch
"Kolyma "ist das zweite Buch des amerikanischen Schriftsteller Tom Rob Smith. Wie schon in" Kind 44" gelingt es dem Autor Spannung und politische Aspekte in Einklang zu bringen und... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 7 Monaten von "robby" lese gern veröffentlicht
Spannend
Aus anderen Rezensionen habe ich gelesen, dass dieses Buch weniger gut sei, als das erste (Child 44). Der Anfang fand ich gleich spannend. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 16 Monaten von Hercule veröffentlicht
schwacher Nachfolger eines Bestsellers
Schon bei "Kind 44" hat der Autor unter Beweis gestellt, dass er ein Händchen für die Symbiose von Wirklichkeit und Fiktion besitzt. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 17 Monaten von Ralf Strohbach (Media-Mania) veröffentlicht
Well written page turner with a poor ending
Among recent books set in Soviet Russia (Child 44, City of Thieves) this book could have been a first-rate choice. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Mai 2010 von CR
Interesting but not "wow"
After having read "Child 44" I was really excited to hear about this book. And while still good, it's not as good as Child 44. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. April 2010 von Timo
wunderbares Buch
sehr interessantes und spannendes Buch. Schön zu lesen, auch für ungeübte Englisch-Leser.
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Veröffentlicht am 5. April 2010 von S. Ripperda
Nice book
Nice book, but the autor has no idea about the structure of organized crime in Russia, nor about the laws of the "wory"
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juni 2009 von Yevgen Layevski
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