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A review by kayoreads
Revenge of the Kremlin by Gérard de Villiers
1.0
I read this book for a class I'm currently in, The Cold War and the Spy Novel. This is the last of 14 books we read, and I was looking forward to it as the only book that mixed contemporary politics with espionage. The book features Vladimir Putin, and the very real death of businessman Boris Berezovsky.
However, I was supremely disappointed. Even though this was the most recently written book featured on the class syllabus, it was the most sexist of them all. Pretty much half the book is devoted to super vulgar, overly-detailed, entirely unnecessary sex scenes. The book is chock full of lines that will make you gag and roll your eyes before tossing the book out of the window, as he describes one character's "f**k-me look" like a "she-cat in heat." Gross. Besides that, the plot has a few holes: the CIA says they're looking into the boyfriend of Berezovsky's lover and then never mention him again, one of Malko Linge's lovers & helpers dies and Linge never even acknowledges this, Linge's fiance takes up half a page and never shows up again. It just makes you wonder, what the f*** is the point of all this?! Probably 2/3 of this book is superfluous.
However, I was supremely disappointed. Even though this was the most recently written book featured on the class syllabus, it was the most sexist of them all. Pretty much half the book is devoted to super vulgar, overly-detailed, entirely unnecessary sex scenes. The book is chock full of lines that will make you gag and roll your eyes before tossing the book out of the window, as he describes one character's "f**k-me look" like a "she-cat in heat." Gross. Besides that, the plot has a few holes: the CIA says they're looking into the boyfriend of Berezovsky's lover and then never mention him again, one of Malko Linge's lovers & helpers dies and Linge never even acknowledges this, Linge's fiance takes up half a page and never shows up again. It just makes you wonder, what the f*** is the point of all this?! Probably 2/3 of this book is superfluous.