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Fourth (I think) Bagley in a row that I listened to in the car, as they're nice and easy to follow compared to a lot more modern fiction — but I think that's it for a while. Preferred the tough guy first-person voice of the previous three, whereas this one's third-person narrative was a little clunkier, (similar in that regard to Alistair Maclean's earlier-vs-later work).
Plot-wise, this one was also ALL over the place, at times feeling like at least three stories in one. And of course, the whol ...more
Plot-wise, this one was also ALL over the place, at times feeling like at least three stories in one. And of course, the whol ...more

Though some of the plot points were quite ludicrous, this was a fun and entertaining Cold War adventure thriller. The action started in Norway and soon moved to both Finland and the Soviet Union and, like all the author's works, it was well written and researched.
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