A review by martyfried
Death of a Dissident by Stuart M. Kaminsky

4.0

I enjoyed this book, although I think I would have liked it better if it was not an audiobook. I found it a little hard to follow some of the characters due to the unusual names, and I think I may have missed a little of what happened because of this, and also due to not paying attention part of the time as I listened while doing other things. But I think the KGB was involved behind the scenes in ways nobody suspected, including me. There was a lot of politics and resulting intrigue that was probably common in Russia during those times.

Reading this book gave me a better understanding of what it must have been like back then. Things were not easy in those days. People did what they had to do to get by, and the police often overlooked the petty crimes in order to solve the bigger ones.