C herchies a novel (re) read for business travel by train, I found in my old books Lovers War of Patrick Hutin (Editions Robert Laffont 1991; Editions J'ai lu, 1992, ISBN 2-277-23310-2). I had a pretty good memory of his Jurors of the shadow, just as "old," but I really do not remember its war Lovers. Had I read and forgotten because he had not captured? Had I bought at a bookstall in telling me that I would read it one day and never had I not finally read it?
Reading the back cover did not answer my questions. So I carried this novel as a reading rail. I did well. I realized that I did this book in my library without having ever read. And I found that a novel station.
Published as perestroika initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev shaking the USSR from a half-dozen years, the novel gives us a glimpse bursts of tensions and misgivings that trouble those committed to the principles of Cold War. A network of sleeper agents in the service of the French DGSE, located around Leningrad, became suddenly silent. Who has silenced the network? The KGB has discovered? The DGSE is not to offend the Soviets keeping clandestine agents on their territory? DGSE she voluntarily disclosed the existence this network to the Soviets, voluntarily sacrificing its agents?
Chess players know that sometimes sacrificing pawns to divert attention from a more ambitious operation. Then someone in Paris or Moscow, he plays chess pawns sacrificing?
Patrick Hutin us into a shady game, secret agent double agents, manipulators with puppets, most conducted clandestine conducted clandestine yet, true false traitors traitors. A game that one wonders who can win.
The plot is compelling and not without recalling the novels of Len Deighton or Eric Ambler, painting this theater of shadows and deceptions. However, the narrative sometimes gets lost in redundancies, the insistence that seemed generally ill-conceived and too cumbersome. Especially in the phases of introspection of the central character, torn between what he thinks is his duty to go after his investigation and his feelings for a woman fight, rather in spite of it, its dangerous business.
Furthermore, the plot is quite complex in itself, and the author could have avoided (and we avoid) to add in the expression of misunderstanding of this person lost in the labyrinth walls change as he grows.
Despite these burdens momentary faults, such Lovers war will appeal to those who love stories of clandestine networks and moles, loves and betrayals. And see the current tensions Russian leaders attached to regain former grandeur, the return air of cold war and saber-rattling, this novel - which has nearly twenty years - kept a real scent of the day.
Reading the back cover did not answer my questions. So I carried this novel as a reading rail. I did well. I realized that I did this book in my library without having ever read. And I found that a novel station.
Chess players know that sometimes sacrificing pawns to divert attention from a more ambitious operation. Then someone in Paris or Moscow, he plays chess pawns sacrificing?
Patrick Hutin us into a shady game, secret agent double agents, manipulators with puppets, most conducted clandestine conducted clandestine yet, true false traitors traitors. A game that one wonders who can win.
The plot is compelling and not without recalling the novels of Len Deighton or Eric Ambler, painting this theater of shadows and deceptions. However, the narrative sometimes gets lost in redundancies, the insistence that seemed generally ill-conceived and too cumbersome. Especially in the phases of introspection of the central character, torn between what he thinks is his duty to go after his investigation and his feelings for a woman fight, rather in spite of it, its dangerous business.
Furthermore, the plot is quite complex in itself, and the author could have avoided (and we avoid) to add in the expression of misunderstanding of this person lost in the labyrinth walls change as he grows.
Despite these burdens momentary faults, such Lovers war will appeal to those who love stories of clandestine networks and moles, loves and betrayals. And see the current tensions Russian leaders attached to regain former grandeur, the return air of cold war and saber-rattling, this novel - which has nearly twenty years - kept a real scent of the day.
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