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Cold War, Hot Passions #2
Terrors
TERRORS
BREAD & CIRCUSES
BLACK CABINETS
is Book 2 of
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
Those impassioned young Russian revolutionaries are now the patriarchs of three families whose generations are enfolded in the sweep of humans and inhumans, inquisitors and victims, that tell the story of the KGB—which is the story of Russia in the Twentieth Century—from the day Lenin created it as the Cheka in the Smolny Convent: the Extraordinary Commission from the beginning and from the inside, motivated by its own imperatives of fear and fanaticism, through the murders of whole classes, the massacres of kulaks, the betrayals of friends and family, the show trials of colleagues, as the trusted special secret executives of Stalin’s will as he gathers the powers of life and death, food and starvation, torture and sanity into his own deformed hands.
While on the other side of the world a slumbering giant awoke slowly to a threat, not of a Russian bear stirring, but of German tanks rumbling…
BREAD & CIRCUSES
BLACK CABINETS
is Book 2 of
COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
the epic saga of ten intertwined Russian and American families who live and die by their love of liberty and the searing passions their fight for freedom arouses in war and peace.
Those impassioned young Russian revolutionaries are now the patriarchs of three families whose generations are enfolded in the sweep of humans and inhumans, inquisitors and victims, that tell the story of the KGB—which is the story of Russia in the Twentieth Century—from the day Lenin created it as the Cheka in the Smolny Convent: the Extraordinary Commission from the beginning and from the inside, motivated by its own imperatives of fear and fanaticism, through the murders of whole classes, the massacres of kulaks, the betrayals of friends and family, the show trials of colleagues, as the trusted special secret executives of Stalin’s will as he gathers the powers of life and death, food and starvation, torture and sanity into his own deformed hands.
While on the other side of the world a slumbering giant awoke slowly to a threat, not of a Russian bear stirring, but of German tanks rumbling…
163 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
About the author
Andre Jute
39 books29 followers André Jute was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which he writes a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers. He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire. There are around three hundred editions of his books in English and a dozen other languages.
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June 17, 2013
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January 18, 2015
This volume contains two short novels by Andre Jute, a favorite author of mine whom I often review. Both are meticulously researched and masterfully written depictions of the Cold War.
Bread and Circuses, the first one, works as a sequel to Vanguard Elite, following the lives of the deputies and aides who supported the leaders of the Russian Revolution. The novel depicts the reign of terror in the new Soviet Union begun by Lenin and continued by Stalin as a means of eliminating political opposition or of eliminating people who were inconvenient. The savagery of this, shown from the eyes of former aristocrat Lukich Kerensky and other supporting characters, is horrible and shocking. I actually emailed Andre at one point to be sure it was true. Unfortunately, it was very much accurate.
The second novel, Black Cabinets, chronicles the American side of things as it shows the development of key figures in the U.S. intelligence community during the same time period. Fans of Ian Fleming may enjoy seeing him appear as a character in the British Intelligence. Black Cabinets is a more subtle story with a calmer pace and a looser structure, but none the less engrossing.
Highly recommended.
Bread and Circuses, the first one, works as a sequel to Vanguard Elite, following the lives of the deputies and aides who supported the leaders of the Russian Revolution. The novel depicts the reign of terror in the new Soviet Union begun by Lenin and continued by Stalin as a means of eliminating political opposition or of eliminating people who were inconvenient. The savagery of this, shown from the eyes of former aristocrat Lukich Kerensky and other supporting characters, is horrible and shocking. I actually emailed Andre at one point to be sure it was true. Unfortunately, it was very much accurate.
The second novel, Black Cabinets, chronicles the American side of things as it shows the development of key figures in the U.S. intelligence community during the same time period. Fans of Ian Fleming may enjoy seeing him appear as a character in the British Intelligence. Black Cabinets is a more subtle story with a calmer pace and a looser structure, but none the less engrossing.
Highly recommended.
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