Rating:  Summary: Snow Wolf grabs your attention, and chills you to the spine Review: Based on a true story, in the 1950s, Snow Wolf tells how the U.S. started the Cold WAr, by sending a husband, wife hit team into Russia to kill Joe Stolin.
The story moves at a very fast clip, and takes the reader from hair breath escapes, and chase scenes to shootouts, and in the end, betrayal.
Truly the best novel about attempted assassination since Fredrick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal.
Rating:  Summary: One of the best books I've EVER read!!! Review: "Snow Wolf" is a novel by Glenn Meade about the assassination of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. I picked up this book a number of years ago when it was first out in paperback, and immediately the book ranked among my favorites. I read it again and again, enjoying it every time! The depth of historical detail and graphic picture of life in Stalinist Russia is amazing and very, very interesting. As a Russophile and amateur Russian-language student for many years, I found this book absolutely amazing! It definitely is historically accurate and I have no doubt it will rank among the best books you have ever read. Please pick up this book TODAY!!!!!
Rating:  Summary: Snow Wolf and Resurrection Day! Review: I enjoyed reading Snow Wolf and found it to be an exciting book. The Glenn Meade book that I most recently read is titled "Resurrection Day". This book was banned in the United States because of it's subject matter. This book tells of an Al Queida attack on Washington D.C. It is absolutely frightening. It is one of the best Glenn Meade books that I have read. I was able to order this book through Amazon.com.uk. Add this to your Glenn Meade collection. It is an exciting book.
Rating:  Summary: loved it Review: I picked this book up at an airport when i was a sophomore in high school. I must've read this book three times. loved it. Heard a company in LA bought the rights and is now making a movie. can't wait. however books are always better then movies. hope the movie does the book justice. awesome read. i'm reading sands of sakkara now. and i want to buy resurrection day.
Rating:  Summary: great read Review: If you're into spy literature and culture, (especially cold war-era Russia) then this is the book for you. Not only is it rich with clever and exciting clandestine plots and twists but Snow Wolf also gives great attention to character development and an intellectual use of real-life (formally) political figures. Meade writes a good one with this book by keeping you turning the page as well as instilling an array of emotion into the reader as he takes you from a murder scene to a love story and much more. Pick this book up for a solid read.
Rating:  Summary: great read Review: If you're into spy literature and culture, (especially cold war-era Russia) then this is the book for you. Not only is it rich with clever and exciting clandestine plots and twists but Snow Wolf also gives great attention to character development and an intellectual use of real-life (formally) political figures. Meade writes a good one with this book by keeping you turning the page as well as instilling an array of emotion into the reader as he takes you from a murder scene to a love story and much more. Pick this book up for a solid read.
Rating:  Summary: Solid Historical Thriller Review: Snow Wolf tells the story of 4 people who, in 1953, are part of a plan to assissinate Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin. The set up of the story is somewhat slow with Jake Massey's son investigating the truth of how his dad died in Moscow in 1953. He meets up with Anna Khorev who tells him the entire story in incredible detail.The first half of Snow Wolf describes Alex Slanski and Anna Khorev's training in Massachusets while Massey and Henry Libel make plans once the spies are in Russia. A lot of scenes in the novel seem out of place, but eventually all of the characters have a place. Still, the novel doesn't pick up steam until the characters are in Russia. Once their, KGB officer Yuri Lukin is put in charge of a massive manhunt for the US Spies. There are several twists and turns and several close calls, and Meade resolves everything a bit too neatly. This is still a great historical thriller and I recommend it to anyone.
Rating:  Summary: Solid Historical Thriller Review: Snow Wolf tells the story of 4 people who, in 1953, are part of a plan to assissinate Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin. The set up of the story is somewhat slow with Jake Massey's son investigating the truth of how his dad died in Moscow in 1953. He meets up with Anna Khorev who tells him the entire story in incredible detail. The first half of Snow Wolf describes Alex Slanski and Anna Khorev's training in Massachusets while Massey and Henry Libel make plans once the spies are in Russia. A lot of scenes in the novel seem out of place, but eventually all of the characters have a place. Still, the novel doesn't pick up steam until the characters are in Russia. Once their, KGB officer Yuri Lukin is put in charge of a massive manhunt for the US Spies. There are several twists and turns and several close calls, and Meade resolves everything a bit too neatly. This is still a great historical thriller and I recommend it to anyone.
Rating:  Summary: Disappointing and overbaked. Review: There was the makings of a great thriller here, but Meade chose to focus on the wrong characters. I was never interested in the fate of Alex, a cold, hard-bitten killer whose motivations are kept under wraps until a (rather contrived) 11th hour reveal. If the story had been built around Massey's doomed attempt to save Alex from trying to carry out a mission that was inevitably going to lead him to disaster, it would have had a stronger emotional hook. But Meade spends much too much time setting up the mechanics of Alex's mission and not enough on giving us a reason to care about Alex. Since this isn't really alternate history, we know he's not really going to succeed, so it needed to be more about the 'why' and less about 'how.'
Sometimes evocative, but structurally clumsy and with a choppy writing style (and some really contrived setpieces) that keep it from catching fire. A shame.
Rating:  Summary: I strongly recommend this six star book Review: THIS BOOK DESERVES SIX STARS. Excellent reading, this is because you will never know what part fo the story is true or false, is a completely different books of KGB and CIA spies, if this book is true I can understand why there are no secrets in the world including the "secrets" of the former USSR. This book is amazing in the story, the secret dead of Stalin, but is not an easy book to read and maybe is a little bit long in some descriptions, I strongly recommend this book if you really want to know how think the spies in both ways, personally and professionally.
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