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Original Title:	Archangel
ISBN:	0515127485 (ISBN13: 9780515127485)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Christopher "Fluke" Kelso, Papu Rapava

Archangel

Robert Harris

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 8836 Users | 426 Reviews

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Title	:	Archangel
Author	:	Robert Harris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2000 by Jove (first published September 19th 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Cultural. Russia

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Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, at a symposium in Moscow concerning the release of secret Soviet archives, he is approached by Papu Rapava, a former Kremlin bodyguard with a story to tell. No one but the desperate Kelso would believe the tale, for what Rapava describes is a sort of Holy Grail among researchers: an actual diary left by Joseph Stalin himself. Such an artifact, if it's genuine -- and if Kelso can survive the fascist Vladimir Mamantov, who wants it for his own agenda -- would be the coup of a lifetime for the discredited researcher.

Before Kelso can learn the location of the diary, Rapava disappears, and Kelso's search for the former bodyguard leads him to the man's daughter, a whore selling herself in the new Moscow of drugs, corruption, and the Russian mafia. With an unscrupulous American journalist hot on their heels, a major of the new KGB close behind, and the shadowy Mamantov following them all, the two follow a trail that leads from Moscow's seedy underbelly to the industrial city of Archangel, where Russia once built her fleets of submarines, to a remote camp on the edge of the Siberian nothingness, and finally to a shocking conclusion that bites like the wind blowing off the tundra. What Kelso sees as the coup of his career might turn out to be the catalyst for an actual coup in Russia. There is a legacy behind the diary, a legacy of evil and death, and Fluke Kelso is unwittingly about to unleash it on the world.

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This book is difficult. It posits alternative history in one sense. But it's main tenet revolves somewhat around a continuity for the cult of Stalin. That question of depth for "our leader" is the core, IMHO. It's the most considered in scope and for the nuance to this book's plotting.Stalin killed far more people than Hitler, there was never a "trial" about or concerning any of his practices or an "afterwards". No Nuremberg. Stalin is clearly seen in statues and memorials. And yet his answer to

I finally got to read the book! I had first come across the book quite a few years ago in the library of a resort. Had read the first few pages but could not proceed further.Anyway, the novel begins with story of Papu Rapava when he was a bodyguard to Beria in the 1950s. The story is recounted by Rapava himself to our protagonist, Prof. Fluke Kelso in the latters hotel room in Russia. It is the 1990s now, the old USSR has collapsed and a new Russia has emerged which promises more freedom to her

I read this book because I love Robert Harris' Pompeii and wanted to see if another book by Robert was as good. Absolutely amazing read, kept me thinking and guessing. I used to do most of my reading on my train journey to work and a few times I almost missed my stop because I was so engrossed! As much as I enjoyed this book, My fave is still Pompeii.

Seemed like a good plot and but never lived up to its potential.

This is a truly excellent book, one of the only novels I have enjoyed more and more with each re-read. The characters are fantastic - I had such a crush on Fluke Kelso the first time I read it, and post-Millennium trilogy I couldn't help but think Zinaida Rapava bears more than a passing resemblance to Lisbeth Salander. The historical detail and the part Russia's history plays in everything that happens (it's almost as though history is a character in the story) is flawless. But the depiction of

I read this book because I saw a 3 show series on Prime based on this book. I thought the book would be more in-depth, and I was interested in the subject matter. As it turns out Prime did a great job following the book. There were a few things different in the book, but nothing of substance. It was interesting and a little tense at times.

Good plot, loved the writing. What I had issues with was Russian names - again! There's no such (female) name: Vavara; it's Varvara. And the probability of urban parents giving their children such old Russian names as Serafima or Foma back in 60s-70s is extremely slim.Any btw, in Moscow in winter, it would start getting dark around 3pm and be pitch black by 5pm; and even earlier in Arkhangelsk. This could be checked on the weather channels or the internet...