Snow Wolf [Hardcover]

Glenn Meade (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Bca; First Edition edition (1992)
• ASIN: B002HEIDMY
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding read! Meade delivers the goods!, September 29, 2005

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Rory Morty "Rory Morty" (Giessen, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Wolf (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an outstanding book! It has a wonderful combination of a fasciniating and exciting espionage story, viewed at times in a wonderfully nostalgic background through the eyes of Anna Khorev. The novel also takes us to some fascinating areas of the world, and describes them beautifully. I whole-heartedly recommend it. The plot is primarily set in the post-war USSR, where the CIA have plotted to kill Joseph Stalin (Operation Snow Wolf), the mission being coordinated by Jake Massey, who enlisted the aid of Alex Slanksi and Anna Khorev, with the KGB under Levrente Beria attempting to thwart them at every opportunity. The characters are well developed, as are the relationships between them. And, in spite of its length, the novel remains fast paced, and addictive. I couldn't put it down.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Action, October 6, 2000

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Rafael Aycinena (Lexington, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snow Wolf (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is simply excellent. It is gripping, full of action, intriguing, surprising and shocking. The description of the events, the characters and the expressions are very well detailed. I think is Meade's best book so far, followed by Sands of the Sakkara (which was very enjoyable also). Anyway, it made my commuting more enjoyable.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars convinsing and compelling, October 15, 2003

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Alexander Gitlits (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snow Wolf (Mass Market Paperback)

When I first saw the book, I thought it to be some silly James Bond-like novel, without any knowledge of history in general and Russian history in particular. But after reading the reviews I desided to give it a try.

Am I glad of that!

It recreates athmosphere of the era as good as Alan Furst, and the blend of fact and fiction is very intriguing. The characters are well-drawn and realistic (and believe me, very few American writers can write realistic Russian characters, and not Crazy Ivan stereotypes).

The characters are not in the way of the action, but the action also doesn't get in the way of characters. These people have reasons for the things they say and do, and these are personal reasons, and not just moving the plot.

I'm not sure in some of the geography of the novel (I think that distances between Moscow, Novgorod and Leningrad wouldn't allow the characters to cover them in the time it took them in the novel)- but that's the only point against the novel I can think of.

This is one of those novels that prove, that a great thriller, doesn't have to be "as current as the headlines" - great story and great characters matter far more!