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Archangel
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
One night Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer, a former bodyguard of the secret police chief, Lavrentii Beria. The old man claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke, and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private papers, among them a notebook. Kelso decides to use his last morning in Moscow to check out the old man's story.
But what starts as an idle enquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across night-time Moscow and up to northern Russia - to the vast forest near the White Sea resort of Archangel, where the final secret of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century. Archangel combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of Fatherland with the meticulous historical detail of Enigma.
The result is a classic adventure story of great intelligence in the tradition of Conrad, Greene and le Carre.
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- Ian W.
- 10-06-22
Anton Lesser draws you into a dark story
Anton Lesser draws you into a dark, but somehow implausible, political story. You get a sense of sweaty walls and grim political abuse throughout Soviet Russia that runs through to the modern day - with a twist of Western manipulation that echoes through to an ongoing Cold War - but it just feels so fantastical you start to listen in disbelief rather than intrigue. It is well executed by Anton Lesser and I love Robert Harris’ other works - just maybe Archangel was a leap too far.
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- Richard
- 24-01-19
Top notch
This is without doubt one of my favourite audiobooks of all time. Excellent story and performance.
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- Andy
- 04-02-15
Robert Harris, you can't go wrong.
What did you like most about Archangel?
It was an interesting story that is backed up by some historical facts.
What does Anton Lesser bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
He did a great job at making the story enjoyable with the way he delivered the book.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Probably not in one sitting but its a good listen.
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