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The Da Vinci Code meets the Russian monarchy. Not quite as masterfully told as Dan Brown's stories, but if you've got a jones--like I do--for what happened to the last tsar and Russian history in general, this will be an interesing romp.
We meet Miles Lord just as he finds himself being shot at in a Moscow street by mafiya thugs. His lunch companion is killed, but he escapes, only to be targeted twice again in the next day and a half. He knows it has something to do with the research he has been doing for his Atlanta law firm into who should be named as the next official Tsar, the democratic government of Russia obviously not working out well at all. He has found some hidden documents that leave open the likelihood that two members of the royal family were not murdered in 1917, but escaped Russia. With the help of a Russian circus acrobat, he finds himself on a quest to find the descendents of the royal family, since they are primary inheritors of the imperial throne now being bartered in Moscow. But he can't seem to get away from the mafiya, even in the United States.
Fun. I liked Miles. Even if he is frequently amazingly lucky and totally obtuse.
Friday, October 15, 2004
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