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Gerald Seymour (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi (1 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552151491
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552151498
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 3 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"* "As good as the best of the masters - Greene, Ambler, Le Carre" - Los Angeles Examiner * "A novel of great distinction" - Daily Mail * "An amazing feat of storytelling...Too good to miss" - The Scotsman * "Written with terrifying, informed immediacy, this holds like barbed wire" - Evening Standard"

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A thrilling classic from a master of the genre.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Joseph Haschka HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
In ARCHANGEL, the Cold War is still frigid.

Oleg Demyonov, a convicted Soviet spy, suffers a fatal heart attack in Her Majesty's prison, Wormwood Scrubs. He was soon to be exchanged for Michael Holly, and the deal is now off.

Holly, an engineer for an English manufacturing company, was recruited by MI6 to deliver a clandestine package on his next business trip to Moscow. A piece of cake, according to his Secret Intelligence Service recruiter. But Holly was caught and convicted of espionage. Now, the swap for Demyonov off, Holly is sent to a Correctional Labor Colony in the heart of the USSR for 14 years. Because Holly was born Mikhail Holovich of Russian parents who'd escaped to Britain after WWII, he's classed as a Russian — a traitor — for the purpose of imprisonment. It's to be Camp 3, Zone 1(Strict Regime).

Back in the UK, the head of MI6 charges Alan Millet, Holly's recruiter, with investigating Michael's background. Is his agent likely to crack under continued interrogation and embarrass Her Majesty's government? As Millet discovers the mettle of the man he sent into harm's way, the reader begins to feel sorry for Michael's gaolers.

In Camp 3, the resident Political Officer, KGB Captain Yuri Rudakov, sees Holly as a giant step up the career ladder if he can extract from the new prisoner the confession the Moscow bumblers couldn't get. In the meantime, Michael fires the first shot in his own personal war with a plastic baggie of machine oil, the page from a magazine, and some coal dust.

This is the best of the several Gerald Seymour thrillers I've devoured to date. The reader's sympathies are focused solely on Holly and are rarely sidetracked, though one is tempted to feel an occasional pang of compassion for Millet and (even!) Rudakov.

As I've stated before, the charm of Seymour's novels is that he doesn't deal in absolutes of right or wrong. His venues of conflict are patterned in shades of gray. As Holly rattles the bars of his cage, both he and the reader question the moral responsibility of his actions as the consequences for his fellow prisoners mounts. This is good stuff that transcends the bulk of the genre.

With delicious anticipation, I contemplate the seven other Seymour books lined up on my shelf to be read.

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This book is quite spectactular. It revolves around Michael Holly who is arrested in the USSR whilst doing an errand for the British Intelligence Service, MI6. Imprisoned for 15 years he refuses to lie down and without a doubt once you read the book you will aspire to be Michael Holly. The Book records Holly's acts of defiance in his gulag which include escape and recapture and climaxes in an enthralling uprising within his camp.
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I don't often get time to read nowadays so I take time to choose my books carefully. Prior to reading this my best ever book was a Gerald Seymour so I had high expectations; they were lived up to! This book is outstanding. It offers a lot to the reader on varying levels and is very easy to read. I would recomend this to anyone who enjoys adventure and intrigue and to those who have a sense of pride and support the underdog. Truly fantastic.
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Riveting read!
I read this back to back with Robert Harris's "Archangel". That was good (4 stars) but this Seymour book beat the pants off it. Was riveted throughout the second half of the book. Read more
Published 13 months ago by S. Wilson
Action and great escapism novel
This is a great thriller by Gerald Seymour the main character Michael Holly, who is a quiet English mechanical engineer, runs a small errand for the British intelligence service,... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. R. N. Lock
The best
This is easy to review because it is quite simply the best book I have read in quite some time. It must be one of Seymour's best.Buy it - you will not be disappointed.
Published on 27 Feb 2009 by J. Forster
Seymour does the Great Escape
Holly gets used by the British Intelligence and gets caught and sentenced to 15 years in a Siberian prison camp. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2008 by Clive
Holly goes to the wire
In ARCHANGEL, the Cold War is still frigid.

Oleg Demyonov, a convicted Soviet spy, suffers a fatal heart attack in Her Majesty's prison, Wormwood Scrubs. Read more

Published on 9 Feb 2006 by Joseph Haschka
thought provoking thriller
...In the first place let me say that I love Gerald Seymour. He is quite simply one of the greatest thriller writers of all time, comparable to Graham Greene, and this is in many... Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2000
Seymour's Best!
Michael Holly is an ordinary man caught involuntarily in the web of the Cold War. As an amateur spy he is caught and imprisoned in Siberia. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 1999
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