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Mar 16, 2019rlbeekman rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The historical period and the mix of circumstances -- early 50s McCarthyism, the "lavender scare," double agents and defectors in the intelligence services on both sides of the iron curtain -- are promising. But this book seems to be the outcome of a kind of slackly constructed automatic writing. The prose style is wooden, lifeless, and monotonous. Critical details of circumstance for plot connections are implausible and often given only at the very moment required to explain an action -- a sort of "forgot to tell the reader," just-in-time method of exposition. Very disappointing.