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Head of State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Richard Hoyt-having ridden the train across
the USSR-is back again. In THE MANNA
ENZYME, Fidel Castro, incognito, headed for
a shootout in the mountains of Oregon.
In TROTSKY S RUN, a man who thought he
was Leon Trotsky ran for President. In COOL
RUNNINGS, the French Surete sent a pot-head
writer to intercept an atomic bomb headed for
Manhattan.
The critics and a growing following love Hoyt s
off:beat thrillers, common only in that they are
fast moving, original, sophisticated, and superbly
written.
Consider Hoyt s discovery that there existed-
exists still-a mound near the southeast corner of
Red Square called Lobnoye Mesto, the Place of
the Skull. The medieval Muscovites believed
Lobnoye Mesto was the center of the earth-radi-
ating a secret power that would make Moscow the
Third Rome; Russians would rule the world.
HEAD OF STATE begins with the 1924
funeral of the revolutionary messiah, V. 1. Lenin.
One of Lenin s pallbearer, Joseph Stalin, under-
stands the power of the myth and so has Lenin
embalmed, turning him into a secular icon-and
very neatly creates a Marxist Lobnoye Mesto at
the base of the Kremlin wall.
Sixty years later, poet Isaak Ginsburg is sent to
the Gulag and suffers an unspeakable outrage.
On his release, Ginsburg sets about to qualify for
foreign travel - in order to defect - by pulling a
literary sting: he writes poetry the Soviets like to
hear. Then he meets an Estonian, Jaan Birk, who
has a grudge of his own and wants to get even.
Birk proposes that they steal Lenin s head.
With the help of Ginsburg s lover, Natalia
Head of State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书