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Snow Falcon [Mass Market Paperback]

Craig Thomas (Author)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Craig Thomas plays Command & Concquer - with real tanks!!, Nov 2 2000
By Rottenberg's rotten book review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Snow Falcon (Hardcover)
In "Snow Falcon", the red army is preparing a lightning strike on NATO intended to coincide with a coup against the communist party. Because the strike is aimed where NATO forces don't expect - and given that the "party" is out of the loop, NATO has no way of knowing where the overwhelming Russian armored offensive is aimed, and has aboslutely no chance of survival.

Almost.

"Snow Falcon" will come as no surprise to readers of the superlative "Winterhawk" in which KGB become not only the vanguards of the party, but the only defense against the rapacious red army. Unlike most technothriller authors, Craig Thomas' plots don't rely on twists or surpirses; tension is built simply on the heroes pluck to hold out - almost reluctantly - against overwhelming odds. In "Falcon", the hero is not the intrepid British agent, but the stalwart KGB colonel who stumbles on plans for the invasion and the coup (which does come off as a twist despite WInterhawk) before having to dodge a small army of troops, helicopters and ceaseless frost. Definately among Thomas' best.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Craig Comes Into His Own, Sep 8 2006
By BeauButabi - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Snow Falcon (Paperback)
The fourth novel from Craig Thomas set the structure for his books to follow. It has a much bigger plot and a larger cast of characters than his previous three. What you end up with is a perfect example of a Craig Thomas novel. Definately one of my favorites.

Kenneth Aubrey, head of SIS, sends an agent into Finnish Lapland to check up on some evidence of Soviet activity in the area. The agent finds a small town, deserted of all it's inhabitants. In their place he finds Red Army troops, using the town as a rehearsal for an invansion. In Moscow, KGB Major Alexei Vorontsyev stumbles onto the other end of the plot. Suspicious of his estranged wife's lover, he's almost killed when he walks into a trap meant to kill him. What could make matters worse? The Soviet leaders are in Helsinki for peace talks with the Americans, which leaves room for the hard liners of the Red Army to plan a coup, a new revolution, and invade Scandinavia. Vorontsyev and his entourage investigate the Russian end and Aubrey must keep up with the Soviet leaders in Finland.

Craig keeps up the tension every page with his crsip writting style and a great cold war plot. His novels are often refered to as techno-thrillers, but I feel that political-thriller is a more accurate description. On a last note, Vorontsyev, the KGB Major of this book, would return in Craig's later novel, A Wild Justice.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another book Hollywood hasn't discovered, Dec 13 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Snow Falcon (Paperback)
The Craig Thomas novel Snow Falcon is set in the Soviet Union of the late 70s and early 80s. It's about an American agent who's arrested by the KGB and sentenced to a Siberian labor camp. The book is good. It's an excellent story. If they ever make it into a movie, Matthew McCaughnehey should be in the lead.
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