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	Amazon.com: Archangel: A Novel (Random House Large Print): Books: Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Archangel is a remarkably literate novel--and simultaneously a gripping thriller--that explores the lingering presence of Stalin amidst the corruption of modern-day Russia.
		British author Harris' literary thriller is a compelling, suspenseful novel of contemporary Russia and its Stalinist legacy.
		Archangel is the 2nd Harris book that I've read and I must say that it takes a certain flare for a book to really captivate me to the point of not being able to put it down, and...
	www.amazon.com /Archangel-Novel-Random-House-Large/dp/0375704124 (1866 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Archangel (Harris novel)
		Archangel is a novel by Robert Harris set in modern Russia.
		It was published in 1998 and became a two part BBC drama in March 2005.
		They then go to Archangel to find the son, which they do in woods near the city.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Archangel_(Harris_novel) (156 words)

	Arkhangelsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 12th century, the Novgorodians established the Archangel Michael Monastery in the estuary of the Northern Dvina.
		During the World War II Archangel was the destination of the Arctic Convoys bringing supplies to assist the Russians who were cut off from their normal supply lines.
		British author Robert Harris's novel Archangel centres on a plot to restore Communism in Russia through a son of Stalin, who is taken to the wilderness and hidden near the town as a young boy by the KGB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arkhangelsk (736 words)

	Pompeii : A Novel by Robert Harris - Slashbyte
		Harris brings the ambiance of the summer of 79 A.D. to life for the reader (or listener), and shows us that they were not really so different from ourselves.
		Originally doubting Harris' ability to maintain suspense considering most readers would know that the mountain explodes at the end (hope I didn't give too much away), I found to the contrary, that knowing how it all ended actually increased the suspense, because you knew that death & destruction were waiting just around the corner.
		Perhaps Harris decided that people dropping dead from H2S poisoning was not dramatic enough, but it does rob the book of some authenticity at the end.
	www.slashbyte.com /r-18/m-Books/b-10484/a-0345475674/Default.aspx (945 words)

	Robert Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Harris is an English TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the city of Nottingham.
		He is most famous for his successful novels, which are usually thrillers.
		Archangel (1999) ISBN 0515127485 (adapted as a BBC mini-series in 2005 [3])
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Harris (203 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Archangel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harris is a master at developing characters and an complex storey line that holds you in a death grip till the final climax.
		First, the excitement of the novel is based largely on the fact that a secret has been kept from Stalin's death in 1953 till the mid-1990s, when a British historian of the USSR happens to stumble across it.
		Harris has created the most boring, cliched, unlikeable picture of an academic imaginable: hard-drinking, womanizing (is there a novel anywhere that doesn't depict a professor sleeping with his students?), and self-absorbed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0754053563/customer-reviews (1597 words)

	michael specter--review--archangel
		So we have to be at least a little thankful to Robert Harris, who in his new novel, ''Archangel,'' has given those of us who retain some literary nostalgia for the Evil Empire exactly what we have been waiting for: a thriller about the bad old days set in the deep, gray present.
		In his previous work, most notably his 1992 novel ''Fatherland,'' in which Hitler triumphed and Nazism lives, Harris mapped out as his special terrain the effects that the 20th century's great villains have had on the world; I am sorry to report it's a subject that never seems to lose its resonance.
		Harris has drawn a rude collection of characters: they are boorish, obtuse, ignorant, vulgar and gloriously pretentious.
	www.michaelspecter.com /times/1999/1999_02_14_rev_harris.html (867 words)

	Archangel review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Archangel, his third novel, (I'll skip over 1995's uninspired Nazi-thriller, Enigma) Harris turns his attention from Germany to Russia, and the quality of his storytelling seems to have benefited from the change of locale.
		Harris begins the novel with a scene that has its roots in historical meetings that are scrupulously possible.
		Harris has served up the same action and historical detail, but his new characters provide more variety and are more polished creations.
	www.omnivore.org /jon/orwell/Archangel.htm (612 words)

	Archangel - Robert Harris
		Robert Harris' first great success came with his novel, Fatherland, in which he suggested an alternate history in which Hitler had won the war (similar to P.K.Dick's The Man in the High Castle or Otto Basil's The Twilight Men, among many such novels).
		The secret of the notebook is not a bad one, and Harris writes a breezy thriller in which the excitement does not sag.
		Harris is, however, a very able writer, and little of the book is clumsy or awkward (beyond the plot).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/harrisr/archangel.htm (627 words)

	Archangel (Harris novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel Craig as Fluke Kelso in the BBC adaptation of Archangel, on the cover of the March 19—March 25 2005 edition of the British television listings magazine Radio Times.
		This article about a novel is a stub.
		This article relating to a television programme originating from the United Kingdom is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archangel_(Harris_novel) (144 words)

	Robert Harris. Archangel... - Russian Bookstore: Travel, History, Language
		Archangel accurately and in great detail isolates the true origins of Communist thought and cleverly incorporates it in a successful and fast paced plot of a modern day mystery.
		Harris takes the reader on a journey into the heart of Russia, modern day Moscow, and then for a look into its soul, the far north.
		Robert Harris does an excellent job of putting together all the elements of past and modern Russia to make you feel like you are there, and though I admit that his ending is a little bit beyond the realm of believability, that's why this is called historical FICTION and not historical FACT.
	www.fabrussia.com /books-travel-russia/019/robert-harris-archangel.htm (524 words)

	Independent, The (London): Books: Interview Robert Harris - Eve of destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harris also remains the - happily inactive - biographer of John Le Carre, "the key writer of a phase of world history, the Cold War", with a licence to publish after the subject's death.
		Together, previous novels and non-fiction have exorcised the "obsessions" of a war-shadowed Midlands youth: "I had written out what I felt about 20th-century politics." The novels' success tugged Harris out of the milieu of the well-connected commentator, and into the select band of blockbuster authors who credit readers with brains and curiosity.
		Harris (who enjoys his top-of-the-range motors) had accelerated from 6,000 - the initial print-run of Fatherland - to sales of 6 million in under a decade.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030830/ai_n12708722 (1453 words)

	FA: Archangel Robert Harris Audio Book 11-10
		Archangel by Robert Harris, Anton Lesser (Narrator) 6 Cassettes 4 Hours Archangel is a remarkably literate novel--and simultaneously a gripping thriller--that explores the lingering presence of Stalin amidst the corruption of modern-day Russia.
		Robert Harris (whose previous works include Enigma and Fatherland) elevates his tale by choosing a narrator with an outsider's perspective but an insider's knowledge of Soviet history: Fluke Kelso, a middle-aged scholar of Soviet Communism with a special interest in the dark secrets of Joseph Stalin.
		The novel rests on a seamless blend of fact and fiction that places real figures from Soviet history alongside Kelso and his fictional colleagues.
	www.talkaboutclassifieds.com /group/alt.marketplace.books-on-tape/messages/3746.html (341 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Robert Harris
		Bio: Robert Harris is the author of Enigma, Fatherland, and Archangel.
		From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii comes the most provocative and brilliant novel of antiquity since I, Claudius--imperium a cautionary tale of cicero, the greatest orator of all time, and his extraordinary struggle for power in rome.
		When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful c...
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/RobertHarriseBooks.htm (289 words)

	Archangel by Robert Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Archangel is the 2nd Harris book that I've read and I must say that it takes a certain flare for a book to really captivate me to the point of not being able to put it down, and Archangel succeeded, as did Fatherland.
		I'm telling you that this novel is one of the best that I've read in awhile, full of suspense, and history, which warms the heart of this History major, and an almost inside glimpse of what it means to live in Russia in this day and age.
		Robert Harris is a graceful and intelligent writer, whether he is chilling us with scenes of Stalin's all-night dinner parties or with the gratuitous violence that pervades so much Russia in the 1990s.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Archangel-0515127485.htm (1252 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Archangel: Books: Robert Harris
		Archangel, with the obvious exception of substituting Hitler for that other 20th-century ogre Josef Stalin, can be seen as something of a combination of these previous projects.
		Harris is historically sound, politically astute and his acute insight into the apparatus of state repression and minds of despots is unnerving.
		Harris has a talent for making the seemingly mundane suddenly very sinister and so it goes for (the appallingly named) Fluke Kelso as he digs himself deeper and deeper into a very dark hole.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Archangel-Robert-Harris/dp/0099282410 (1174 words)

	Archangel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Laura Mackie, Head of BBC Drama Serials, says: "Robert Harris' Archangel is an intelligent and compulsive thriller full of twists and turns, which Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have adapted into a taut and compelling screenplay taking the audience on a journey through contemporary Russia and the secrets surrounding Stalin's death.
		Harris' novels Enigma and Fatherland have both been made into films - Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Tom Hollander and Saffron Burrows starred in Enigma (2001) and Miranda Richardson, Michael Kitchen, Peter Vaughn and Jean Marsh starred in Fatherland (1994).
		Archangel is produced by Christopher Hall (Hound Of The Baskervilles, The Lost World) and directed by Jon Jones (The Alan Clark Diaries, When I'm 64).
	www.sirin.com /ksenia/archange.htm (3701 words)

	Pompeii: A Novel, Robert Harris
		All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer.
		Harris provides an awe-inspiring tour of one of the monumental engineering triumphs on which the Roman empire was based...
		Brilliantly evoking the doomed society pursuing its ambitions and schemes in the shadow of a mountain that nobody knew was a volcano, Harris, as Vesuvius explodes, gives full vent to his genius for thrilling narrative.
	www.marked4sale.com /product_book/pompeii_a_novel_0679428895 (1341 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Archangel by Robert Harris
		Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma.
		Archangel combines the imaginative sweep and dark suspense of Fatherland with the meticulous historical detail of Enigma.
		Robert Harris has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0099282410 (303 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: 'Archangel' offers insight on post-Communist Russia 02/28/99
		Robert Harris' first novel, Fatherland, posited a world in which Germany won World War II and completed the extermination of European Jewry.
		Harris, a Briton and a former journalist, brings a sharp reportorial eye to bear on Archangel, the northern city where part of the action unfolds: ``The (Dvina) river was wide, stained yellow by the tundra.
		Harris portrays a battered and demoralized Russia where everything from women to police to priceless archival material is on sale (for dollars), and wild dogs scavenge in the trash at the foot of a giant war memorial.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/022899/fea_novel.shtml (340 words)

	Pompeii by Robert Harris
		ROBERT HARRIS is the author of Enigma, Fatherland, and Archangel.
		But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.
		With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.
	www.italian-mysteries.com /RHA01.html (294 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Enigma author on Johnson panel
		Robert Harris completes the panel, which will soon begin the process of whittling the contenders down to a long-list of 25.
		Harris is a former BBC broadcaster, having worked on such programmes as Tonight, Panorama and Newsnight.
		His first novel, Fatherland in 1992, was a bestseller and was followed by Enigma, based on the true tale of the wartime code-breaking machines.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1958238.stm (394 words)

	Enigma now only £6.99 - news and infos, data and review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code.
		Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labour, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his coworkers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy.
		They seem to be, in a way, extensions of Harris' fantasies of what he himself would be do in these situations.
	www.fair-shop.co.uk /Enigma_0099992000_p.html (651 words)

	Archangel by Robert Harris - Book ASIN 0679428887
		Harris' books are full of ironic critique of communism, stalinism, leninis.
		He is a Oxford historian and Mr Harris's novel tells the story of four days in Kelso's life which starts one night when a former NKVD officer visits him in his hotel room.
		Not only is Harris a great author who's writing flows very quickly and fluently, but he also has a very talented mind for these kinds of books.
	www.modulaware.com /modulaware.com/a/?m=select&id=0679428887 (724 words)

	Archangel: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/archangel (300 words)

	Archangel by Robert Harris - Book ASIN 0099282410
		At times, particularly in the latter half of Archangel, I felt the author wanted nothing more than to get the book over with. Joseph Stalin is the central figure in the plot, his thoughts, beliefs and actions shape the events of the novel.
		Thus Harris is able to set the scene of the book in an effective way and the tension builds in a convincing manner.
		However, in doing so Archangel is set in an almost Orwellian Russia, where the bad guys are so bad that they come over a little cliched and the Russian people become caricatures, almost totally grey and devoid of humanity. There was real scope in this book to develop an excellent story line to a thrilling conclusion.
	www.modulaware.com /modulaware.com/a/?m=select&id=0099282410 (783 words)

	Archangel by Robert Harris - Book Reviews & Book Jacket Summary
		Archangel is a worthy example of how the history of modern Russia can be woven into a mesmerizing adventure yarn.
		Well-researched and skillfully observed, Archangel examines how Russia's uncompleted history--the "past that carries razors and pair of handcuffs"--continues to affect its attempt at free-market democracy.
		What he does particularly well is evoke the atmosphere of contemporary Russia, not only the physical sense of it but also its threat of violent instability, the howling of its caged wolves.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=343 (594 words)

	Archangel Book at Shop Ireland
		I found myself pulling a face, looking at my husband and saying "I cannot believe this." He agreed with me that it was utterly improbable and totally marred what had until then been a fascinating story.
		Although described as Harris's best novel so far by the critics, and it is good, the author seems to have lost the unique voice of Fatherland and Enigma that set him apart from other writers of the genre.
		The story is far more subtle than Forsyth's Icon but one is always left with the impression that the book was written with an eye on a future screenplay and this ultimately seems to dictate and confine the structure to a number of set-pieces.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0099282410/10 (410 words)

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