A review by bookcrone_
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis

5.0

An Israeli politician, who is a former Soviet dissident and gulag survivor, encounters the informant who denounced him some 40 years earlier. I knew from the first page that I was in the hands of a thoroughly competent writer in the best sense: I could relax and lose myself in the story, knowing I wouldn't be tossed out by a false note. From beginning to end, it was a gem, and I cried at the end, just bawled, even though the narrator's politics aren't mine. That is more than competence, that is enviable craftsmanship.