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Author: Julian Semyonov
Publisher: Calder Publications
Release Date: 1987-09
ISBN-10: 0714541206
ISBN-13: 9780714541204
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One of the best spy thrillers I've ever read
| Customer Rating: | This is far superior to most spy fiction, in which the heroes rely primarily on their combat skills and on their brains secondarily; they usually have supporting characters to help them do hard intellectual tasks like read.
Fortunately, TASS IS AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE is a complete break from that. There's only a little action right near the end, the focus is definitely on what is, essentially, a giant game of chess between the CIA and the KGB, with agents trying to outwit and outthink one another.
Although there could be a little confusion at times (the translations from Russian weren't always clear, and two similar characters share the same name), I certainly didn't see any evidence of anti-Semitism as was claimed. For the most part I am highly satisfied with this Soviet spy novel. |
This spy novel was written as Soviet Cold War propaganda.
| Customer Rating: | | This is an unintentionally revealing book, written at the height of the Cold War by a skilled Soviet propagandist. The action centers on an East-West struggle for control of a fictional African country, modeled after Angola. The KGB agents are all gentlemen, well versed in Russian litterature and western philosophy. The CIA agents are, wouldn't you know it, drug smugglers and pro-Nazi. Other "bad guys" are the Chinese and the Israelis. In an invocation of classic Czarist anti-semitism, one prominent baddie is a New York diamond merchant (Couldn't the author at least make him a Jewish semi-conductor manufacturer and bring the novel into the present century?). The weirdness does not stop there. The KGB man outfoxes the CIA man because he can hold his liquor better. The CIA is tied to the Kennedy assasination. And on it goes. This book is an excellent insight into Soviet propaganda and the material that has been force-fed to its citizenry during the Soviet era. |
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