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Song for Katya (Paperback)

by Kevin Stevens (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: TownHouse/Pocket Books (5 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903650674
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903650677
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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In a frigid January in the mid seventies, during the height of the Cold War, jazz pianist Drew Fisher travels from New York to Moscow as part of a State Department good will musical tour. Struggling with the demons of past addiction and personal failure, Drew falls in love with the tour organizer, Katya Timoshenko, herself mired in a loveless marriage and the stagnation of the Soviet state. Beneath the watchful eyes of the CIA and KGB, their love blossoms like the sublime music Drew and his group are playing. Against impossible odds they find expression of their love but the bureaucrats who see a threat in Drew and Katya's love combine to destroy their future, as Katya considers defection. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal, 25 Oct 2005
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This review is from: Song for Katya (Paperback)
Kevin Stevens is the M. Night Shyamalan of the written word. He takes genres whose situations and stock characters are too well known and asks, "what would that be like if it happened in real life?"

Rather than re-examine ghosts (The Sixth Sense), superheroes (Unbreakable) or aliens (Signs), though, Stevens has chosen police corruption (2003's The Rizzoli Contract) and now the Cold War. Song for Katya is set in Moscow, January 1981. Stevens writes with authority, and nails the time and atmosphere to a T. While his novel includes characters who work for the CIA or the KGB, the focus is not on spies but on a musician. Jazzman Drew Fisher is not even the band's leader. He plays the piano like his idol Bill Evans. And like most men Drew is too wrapped in his own concerns and haunted by his past to be concerned with politics.

When Drew meets Katya Timoshenko, one of the facilitators from the cultural exchange, the attraction is immediate. Mutual understanding soon blossoms into love, then explodes into illicit passion. But how can two people be left free to form their own alliance in this atmosphere? A thaw in the icy status quo would prove highly embarrassing for those in high power.

Readers who are expecting top-secret spy action or James Bond gadgets are best off pulling a musty Cold War era paperback off the shelf. Song for Katya presents the reality of what life was like under the Soviet system, and explores what two real people can do when confined in such situations.

Four stars.

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