- Hardcover
- Publisher: HarperAudio; Abridged edition edition (Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0694515620
- ISBN-13: 978-0694515622
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The new international bestselling thriller from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia. Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestsellers Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From the Back Cover
FROM THE ASHES OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW AND ALL-TOO-DEADLY THREAT TO WORLD PEACE ARISES…
Novvy Urengoy, Siberia.
In one of the most hostile and lawless places in the Russian Federation, an American gas company executive is found dead, the apparent victim of a casual robbery or the local mafia. Alexei Vorontsyev, chief of detectives, finds his investigation mysteriously blocked from every side.
Washington, D.C.
The chief executive of the gas company and his wife are murdered in their opulent mansion. John Lock, State Department expert on Russia and former CIA agent, vows revenge on the killers of his beloved sister and brother-in-law.
There is no possible connection between the two crimes; they are merely two eruptions of modern lawlessness – or are they? The answer lies in Siberia, where a conspiracy of ruthless corruption, as deadly as it is sinister, poses a more serious threat to the security of the West than ever did the Soviet Union and its armies. Each man seeks justice – but what happens when the price becomes too much to pay?
'Nail-biting tension… a master storyteller'
TODAY
'Admirably suspenseful'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read several Craig Thomas, and this was by far the easiest to 'get into'. In some of the other books, I can be 1/3 the way into the book before I feel gripped, but this was good right from the start. The caracters are well introduced and the tension builds as the story comes to its conclusion. Possibly slightly predictably, but not in to any detriment to the book. The book excellently describes the problems facing the police force in modern Russia. All in all, a good way to get introduced to Craig Thomas books if you haven't read any of the others.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Craig's Gorky Park
6 Dec 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
By the mid-90's, it seemed that Craig got a little bored with his formula that took Patrick Hyde and Kenneth Aubrey on so many outings. With this book, though, he gave those fellows a rest and brought back just one link from the past in the form of KGB Major Alexei Vorontsyev from his much earlier novel Snow Falcon.
But of course he's not KGB any more since the Soviet Union is no more in this book. An executive of an American company is found murdered in the Siberian town of Novyy Urengoy and Vorontsyev and his team must get to the bottom of what the company is up to, discovering links to the Russian mafia along the way. Meanwhile in America, ex-CIA agent John Lock finds his sister and brother-in-law murdered in their home. Apparently the brother-in-law had connections with the same company whose executive was murdered in Siberia. Lock is determined to get to the truth of his sister's murder and his poking around doesn't make things better for him in the states. He gets enough information to know that his answers lay in Siberia, where he'll have to team up with Vorontsyev and his team to stop the wrong doings that lead to Vietnamese drug smugglers.
It all sounds like a great story for a Craig novel, but something just didn't add up. I'm not sure what, though. I guess I'm just a big fan of oppositre sides of governments as Craig's characters and politics as the plots rather than heroes fighting multi-million dollar corporations. But it's still definately worth a look if you're a fan of Craig's other books. Not bad for a Craig fix.
But of course he's not KGB any more since the Soviet Union is no more in this book. An executive of an American company is found murdered in the Siberian town of Novyy Urengoy and Vorontsyev and his team must get to the bottom of what the company is up to, discovering links to the Russian mafia along the way. Meanwhile in America, ex-CIA agent John Lock finds his sister and brother-in-law murdered in their home. Apparently the brother-in-law had connections with the same company whose executive was murdered in Siberia. Lock is determined to get to the truth of his sister's murder and his poking around doesn't make things better for him in the states. He gets enough information to know that his answers lay in Siberia, where he'll have to team up with Vorontsyev and his team to stop the wrong doings that lead to Vietnamese drug smugglers.
It all sounds like a great story for a Craig novel, but something just didn't add up. I'm not sure what, though. I guess I'm just a big fan of oppositre sides of governments as Craig's characters and politics as the plots rather than heroes fighting multi-million dollar corporations. But it's still definately worth a look if you're a fan of Craig's other books. Not bad for a Craig fix.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A great novel...just not a great Craig Thomas novel
25 April 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
First off, I want to say how much I love Craig Thomas's writing, and I just know I'll come back "A Wild Justice", but the book has flaws that won't be helped by a second reading.
THE PLOT: Assassins murder the sister of John Lock, an ex-CIA officer. Lock soon learns that the plot was actually aimed at his rich brother in-law, the corporate head of a company doing business in post-Soviet Siberia. Unbeknownst to him, an executive of the company has already been found murdered in the remote Siberian town of Novy Urengoy, triggering an investigation by the local intel services. Independently, both Lock and the Russian chief Vorontsyev link crimes to Turgenev, who heads the Russian end of the company combining with Lock's in-law, and both make the mistake of alerting their target. While Vorontsyev struggles to keep his officers alive, Lock evades various attempts to kill him while he travels to Novy Urengoy. When the two link up, they consider various underpinnings of Turgenev's plan - smuggled drugs or weapons - eventually hitting on a much darker conspiracy.
THE PROBLEMS: Craig Thomas's writing is normally opaque, but that give's his plots greater depth. Unfortunately. The simple plot of "Justice" just seems undefined - we learn quickly who the bad guy is, and that he must be stopped. While the plot hints at the more earthshaking aspects of Turgenev's plans, it never makes them clear enough to be scary. The plot itself doesn't offer much tension because there is no sense of a deadline that must be made (like, stop Turgenev before the Russian Army arrives, or before a laser sattelite targets the space shuttle). Also, Turgenev remains undefined because he's never given any real henchmen or colleagues like the tag-teams of other Thomas novels (Like Babbington and Winterbach of "Lion's Run"; Serov and Rodin of "Winterhawk"; or Kontarsky and his Soviet bosses in "Firefox"). Lock remains an enigma himself, without that checkered past of characters like Priabin and Mitch Gant. While the plot isn't up to Thomas's previous standards, his belief-suspending plot-twists, unfortunately, are true to form. Are we supposed to believe that Lock, already on the run at home, will risk going to Siberia alone? While most Thomas books rely on recurring characters - Aubrey, Hyde and Priabin - "Justice" brings back only one character: the heroically defiant Vorontsyev who single-handedly halted a Red Army coup in the superior "Snow Falcon", but doesn't hint at his tenacity in this later book.
STILL: "Justice" offers a tight plot, likeable characters and Thomas's trademark prose. Given that Thomas hasn't been writing as many novels these, we'll take what we can get, even a novel that seems only exceedingly superior to anything else being written, as opposed to his usual obscenely-better-than standard. In short, a must for Craig Thomas fans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I found it very boring.
5 Jan 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have read several of Craig Thomas's books, it is hard to believe that he could have written this book.It seemed as if Lock's sister, was more than just a sister.Mostly it was boring, especially the last part of the book.
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