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de Tom Rob Smith (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Reader)
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Starred Review. Dennis Boutsikaris expertly conveys the fear and paranoia that permeates Smith's outstanding debut novel of murder in 1950s Stalinist Russia. Leo Demidov, decorated hero of WWII and an officer in Moscow's MGB (a forerunner of the KGB), refuses to denounce his wife as an enemy spy. He is subsequently demoted, disgraced and dispatched, along with his wife, to a backwater factory. A brutal murder with the same characteristics as one Leo was once forced to cover up convinces him that a serial killer is stalking Russian children. Using Russian accents to their full advantage, Boutsikaris infuses his characters' dialogue with a deep sense of downtrodden melancholia. His staid, deliberate reading captures the soul-numbing oppressiveness of life under a totalitarian regime, as well as one man's desperate fight against it in order to do what's right. A Grand Central hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 3). (May)
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"Child 44 not only is one of the best mysteries of this year, but it is one of the most remarkable and original debuts in recent years. Set in post WWII Stalinist Russia, Child 44 works equally well as a hard-boiled novel, a political thriller, a regional mystery and an emotional, even romantic story about a couple rediscovering each other. It is at once gritty, chilling, depressing, hopeful and, above all, fascinating...Dennis Boutsikaris is the perfect reader for this story. Boutsikaris, who frequently shows up on Law & Order, captures the story's angst, nuances and accents." (Sun Sentinel )
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Give The Hype A Rest, Mai 12 2008
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This review is from: Child 44 (Hardcover)
The following are true; Mr. Smith is a talented young writer who has written a very good first book. He did his homework and lists as resources authors who have among them a winner of The Nobel Prize.
Reality check; he may someday enter the lists of writers that include John LeCarrre and other notables of this genre however he is not there at present and based on what I have read of this man I think he would be the last to suggest it. This work is a solid debut; it is not the greatest work since Guttenberg began his printing press.
I dont know where the line is drawn between fiction and historical fiction. The author moved the events that truly took place in the 1980s to Stalins 1950s when the stakes were much higher for someone who dared to risk opposing the State. That may be an understatement as Stalin presided over one of the most murderous, repressive cults of personality in History.
The story required a primary character that went through an about face in his beliefs and personal conduct. I found this to be a stretch based on the events in the book. As part of The MGB Leo Demidov zealously and actively engaged in horrific behavior based upon his State-Based conditioning. I found his change as a character too extreme to accept as a reader even though the author used Khrushchevs arrival to buttress the closing events of the book. I thought it made for an ending that was a bit too bright for 1950s Russia.
I really did enjoy the unwinding of the motivation for the serial killer. I cannot say much as it would spoil the tale for readers to come. I found it unique among the stories of its type. And unlike others I did not find there were any contrived gotcha moments or gratuitous twists in the book.
The book is an enjoyable read. It is also the authors first book. He is likely to write and grow and give readers finer work as he develops his talent. Talking of any authors first work in superlatives is unfair and unrealistic.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Closer to 4.5 stars, Nov. 4 2009
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This review is from: Child 44 (Hardcover)
Surprisingly good. It's tight and fast-paced and gives a glimpse into a repressed culture in a repressed era. It could have had the feel of a history or anti-soviet lesson but managed to avoid that lecture-y feel.

Coming from our modern liberal world, it's hard not to wonder how anyone lived in that kind of repression, and how anyone managed to get anything done...

It's fiction but how much of it could have been true? Were/are there serial killers in countries that weren't/aren't caught because the government doesn't acknowledge their existence? Will we ever know?
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Yet another bad buy, Aoû 1 2009
This review is from: Child 44 (Mass Market Paperback)
I should have learned after reading the first Tom Rob Smith effort. This novel is full of cliches, overwrought language, and one-dimensional characters. Transforming it to a script for a two-star action movie wouldn't take much work.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Gripping and chilling
I picked Child 44 up one day and knew nothing about the book but the cover caught my interest and the blurb on the back cover intrigued me. Read more
Publié il y a 6 mois par David C. Halkett

5.0étoiles sur 5 first rate thriller
This is a great thriller and an amazing debut novel. All sorts of well-researched historical details in a rarely written about time -- Stalinist Russia. Read more
Publié il y a 13 mois par Marsha Skrypuch

5.0étoiles sur 5 Child 44 is A-1
OK, this is his FIRST book. And with his FIRST book he crafts a stunning historical thriller, a murder mystery that is incredibly smart, and a human journey of change and... Read more
Publié il y a 15 mois par Dave and Joe

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