Soviet Sources

By Robert Cullen

Book Overview

American journalist Colin Burke may have been in Moscow long enough to lose his naivet, but he hasn't lost his reporter's ambition for that One Big Story. That ambition could prove fatal when a source presents Burke with the story of a lifetime. It blinds him to the fact that he's got only part of a story that stretches to the Kremlin and the White House. He knows just enough to make some dangerous people very uncomfortable. Can he learn the rest in time to save his own skin?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933397276
• ISBN13: 9781933397276
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Brezhnev's Soviet Union

The 1970's were supposed to be the peak of life in the Soviet Union. Of course there were still lines, but goods were more available but of the usual Soviet quality. It also marked a time of crop failures leading for the time purchases of American wheat; and a jump in the price of a barrel of oil, though I don't recall the Soviet Union of being big player in Global Oil Markets back then. After viewing some videos of that time on Youtube, I found in the comments of Brezhnev's stroke of 1975, certainly not revealed in the West, or to his own people. It is alleged that Brezhnev was completely incapacitated from that time till his death in 1982. Funny how that time is fondly remembered by some segments of the current Russian population.

like being there

I first read this book years ago when it was first published and always thought it was one of the best, and most realistic, stories of the cold war period. Having spent a lot of time in Moscow during those years, I felt that the author really captured the ambience of that world. I am glad to see it has been re-published; I will order another copy. More than most, it really made the reader feel in and familiar with the Russia of that time.

Super Book

Great book, it is not often that an author can come up with such a comprehensive book as this on his first try. This had it all, a great story, good characters, wonderful action and a quick pace. This is an exciting book. It really made me happy reading the book; it was like a great game of treasure hunt where you find everything. Each time I was ready for a plot twist, action of drama it was there. The characters just explode in your memory - you do not get them out of your head. Overall great effort.