Buy this book on-line HARRIS**, ROBERT: : ARCHANGELLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1998. ISBN 0091779243.
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Present-day Russia (then 1998) is the setting for the stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers 'Fatherland' and 'Enigma'.
'Archangel' tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso,a dissipated,middle-aged former Oxford historian,who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives.
One night Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer,a former bodyguard of the secret police chief,Lavrenty Beria.The old man claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke,and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private papers,among them a notebook.
Kelso decides to use his last morning in Moscow to check out the old man's story.
But what starts as an idle enquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across night-time Moscow and up to northern Russia - to the vast forests near the White Sea port of Archangel,where the final secret of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century.
'Archangel' combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of 'Fatherland' with the meticulous historical detail of 'Enigma'.The result is Robert Harris's most compelling novel yet.
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