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by Brent Ghelfi (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc; Unabridged edition (8 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400157625
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400157624
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,085,006 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A sequel to Volk's Game finds Russian undercover military agent Alexei Volkovoy doubting himself in the wake of political intrigue, economic instabilities, and the absence of the ethereal Valya, a situation that escalates until he retaliates against the wrong person and makes a dangerous enemy. Simultaneous.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Another Grim New Russian Thriller, 5 Feb 2009
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Volk's Shadow (Hardcover)
I'm not a huge fan of the action-thriller genre (at least in writing, films are another matter), but since I'd read the first installment of the "Volk" series (Volk's Game), I figured I'd check this one out to see how the Russian supersoldier is getting along. The answer is: pretty much the same. In the first book, the ex-special forces antihero ran around Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, and New York in a desperate hunt for a long-lost Da Vinci painting sought after by a number of factions, including his shadowy Army General boss and the ruthless Azeri mafioso at the top of Moscow's organized crime. In this adventure, it's a long-lost Fabrege Egg that Volk's supposed to track down on behalf of "The General."

However, that's not all, as the author piles on plenty of other plotlines, including a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by a pedophile, a video of a Russian Army war crime in Chechnya, the bombing of an oil company office, the grisly torture and murder of Russian ex-soldiers, the missing daughter of a U.S. Senator, and executive-level intrigue regarding oil pipelines. If this sounds like a few too many ingredients, it is. The book moves at breakneck pace, jumping between all these different plotlines while never providing much depth for any of them. As in the first book there are tons of twists, turns, and betrayals of all kinds, along with plenty of fisticuffs, gunplay, knifing, and whatnot, as the mostly unstoppable Volk leaves bodies in his wake in his search for answers.

After spending most of the first two-thirds of the book in Moscow, the action in the third act takes Volk back the Caucuses, where he will confront demons from his past, as well as an angel. The climax is pretty much as one would expect, and while satisfying in a grim sense, the book is unlikely to leave readers with a very positive feeling about the state of contemporary Russia.(It's worth noting that this is a case where reading the previous volk book is probably a very good idea, as there are various elements and relationships established in that book that are glossed over in this one.)

Worthwhile nonfiction companions to this book might include: journalist Anna Politkovskaya's two books Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy and The Dirty War, David Satter's Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State, ex-soldier Arkady Babchenko's terribly titled memoir One Soldier's War, Sebastian Smith's Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya, photographer Stanley Greene's harrow photos in Open Wound, Chechen doctor Khassan Baiev's memoir The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire, and Yo'av Karney's regional travelogue/history Highlanders.
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