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Good morning. My name is Kenyon Kane (kenyonkaneusca@gmail.com). I am requesting a review for my novel Putin's Useful Idiot - A Romance of Cultures - The Intrigue of Spies (109k words). The novel is not about Trump, it is not political. It is about a transaction in 1984 I progressed with Colonel Putin. I refer you to the Amazon review by Dan Santos, another author:
ReplyDeleteDan Santos reviewed Putin’s Useful Idiot: A Romance of Cultures — The Intrigue of Spies
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A fantastic novel. Very entertaining! May 10, 2020
I suppose if someone wrote a novel about combining concrete and steel to build a bridge across a river, a civil engineer would salivate at every word. You could expect the same reaction from this political scientist over Kenyon’s Kane novel; a novel I almost didn’t read because the title sounded too politically contemporary, and I pride myself in being as apolitical as possible.
I don’t know much about the author beyond what I read in Amazon: a guy with a law degree who put together real estate deals in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Grenada. I can surmise, however, that Kenyon Kane might not be his real name, and that he knows how the Soviet Union worked as intimately as I do. And, oh yes, that he’s a hell of a writer.
The story centers around Richard Hart, a government contractor working for the CIA on a project meant to undermine a small portion of the Soviet economy by putting together a deal that would renovate a hotel to American standards, establish the use of hard currency credit cards, and in the process provide retirement money for a number of retiring KGB operatives prior to the crumbling of the Soviet Union. Either that, or pave the way for a nuclear arms reduction treaty Gorbachev had in mind. Intricate, you say? Nah, as easy to understand as the workings of Soviet bureaucracy; but incredibly entertaining; and that’s the reader in me talking, not the political scientist.
The novel has everything that will keep a civilian reader glued to its pages: treachery, suspense, murder attempts, honeypot Russian prostitutes, even radioactive shoe polish. It also has interesting though somewhat anachronistic characters whose lifespans extend from adulthood during World War II to still functioning political protagonists during the late 1980s. The reader will hardly notice the discrepancy in the present, first person narrative. Like I said, Kane is skilled.
You won’t be able to finish the book in less than three sittings. And you won’t want to. These days, it’s difficult to get a hold of great writing like this. Okay, enough of a teaser. Go get the book and get truly entertained.
Five well earned stars!
Many thanks,
Kenyon
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