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Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, a Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI
Eileen Welsome
3.0 AVERAGE
1 review for:
Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, a Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI
Eileen Welsome
3.0 AVERAGE
The disappearance of Thomas Riha and the subsequent fall of Galya Tannenbaum, has fascinated me for a very long time. I was excited to dig into it and see how this disappearance was wrapped up in everything from Czechoslovakia to espionage.
Unfortunately this book starts off very strong, and gets strong again in the end, but the middle is a vast sea of boredom; I actually didn't even read the full book -- I read about 300 pages and then, finally, skipped ahead to the end. I understand Welsome's want to be as thorough as possible because this is a complex incident, but its overkill at times. She takes an entire page to describe a single FBI agent; that's when I realized the pace of the book was slowing down. And for over 100 pages, it just did not capture or interest me.
Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the Riha case, but with the caveat that you will need to take ample time with it, as it moves incredibly slow in the middle. But Welsome does a great job of providing as much context as one can in this story.
Unfortunately this book starts off very strong, and gets strong again in the end, but the middle is a vast sea of boredom; I actually didn't even read the full book -- I read about 300 pages and then, finally, skipped ahead to the end. I understand Welsome's want to be as thorough as possible because this is a complex incident, but its overkill at times. She takes an entire page to describe a single FBI agent; that's when I realized the pace of the book was slowing down. And for over 100 pages, it just did not capture or interest me.
Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the Riha case, but with the caveat that you will need to take ample time with it, as it moves incredibly slow in the middle. But Welsome does a great job of providing as much context as one can in this story.