White Fox
The acclaimed, chillingly authentic Cold War thriller
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- 12,99 €
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
The new novel from a master of the Cold War thriller . . .
'This is Robert Harris storytelling territory' Daily Mail
'Outstanding' Sunday Times
'Tense, exciting and authentic' Charles Cumming, author of Judas 62
'Stunning' The Times
'Brilliantly plotted' John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin
'A standout thriller' Financial Times
1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio broadcasts news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin's new posting as director of a gulag camp in the middle of the frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, disappear - sent to die forgotten. And quietly. But tensions in the camp are running high and when a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run. With him is a mysterious prisoner - who holds the key to the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered Kennedy's murder.
In a breathless race that takes them through the Soviet Union - from the barren Siberian wastelands to the stunning halls of the Katerina Palace and the grey streets of Leningrad and Moscow - Vasin must stay one step ahead of the most ruthless spy and police organizations in the world . . . and keep the most wanted man in Russia alive. It's a journey that will push Vasin's loyalty, morality and his patriotism to the limit. And he must confront the ultimate choice: fall in line, or die fighting the system.
With masterful storytelling that weaves together an explosive moment in history with the cutthroat machinations of Soviet politics, Owen Matthews' White Fox captures the paradigm-shifting assassination from a unique Soviet point of view. This is a page-turning thriller - a race against time across Soviet Russia, where the participants face impossible odds and must decide between truth, justice and all-out war.
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Rogue KGB agents plot to assassinate JFK in the confusing third and final volume of Matthews's Black Sun trilogy (after 2021's Red Traitor). In September of 1963, Andrei Fyodorov, the former KGB station chief in Miami who recruited Lee Harvey Oswald for the hit, realizes that "the plan was insane" and decides he doesn't want to go through with it. His efforts to stop it fail. When Kennedy is assassinated, Fyodorov, who fears certain people want to kill him because he knows all the details of the plot, is sent to a Siberian penal colony under an assumed name by the KGB's General Orlov, who knows Fyodorov can implicate him in the assassination plot. The commandant of the camp, Lt. Col. Alexander Vasin, decides to help Fyodorov in retaliation against his rival, Orlov. Exciting chase scenes across Russia, including through the brutal, unforgiving Siberian countryside, compensate only in part for the surfeit of exposition on the KGB's internal politics and the lack of characterization. Matthews, who was once a Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow, has a deep, wide-ranging knowledge of the Soviet Union and the era, but his overly dogged attention to detail doesn't generate a lot of thrills. Even JFK assassination conspiracy buffs will be disappointed.
