Smiting the Bear: The Last Stand of Comrade Fox (The Life and Times of Archibald Brinsley Fox) - Softcover

Hennessey, Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492893730 ISBN 13: 9781492893738

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Smiting the Bear is the journal of Archibald Fox’s extraordinary adventures in the Russian wasteland of 1920-21.

Known in his day as a spy, thief, forger, womaniser and saxophonist, Fox was an unlikely witness to this dark, forgotten time. Determined to steal a Fabergé Egg and seduce the former mistress of Vladimir Lenin, he remained in Russia when the other Revolutionary tourists fled.

He is forced to witness elaborate torture, celebrated by an entire village. He is compelled to partake in the new cuisine; cannibalism. He is petrified in the ghost cities by hunger, madness, apparatchiks and the feral tribes of orphans who roam the streets killing innocents for kicks. He is press ganged into a Red Army unit, arrested by secret police, signed up to a peasant militia and uncharacteristically devastated by love.

With his desires thwarted, Fox stumbles into the last great uprising in Bolshevised Russia. He knows it’s a tragic farce but, alas, there is no way out...

About this title

About the Author:

Stewart Hennessey is a former journalist and editor on national newspapers. He has also ghostwritten academic papers and the autobiography of a stripper. To his undying shame he has been a copywriter in the financial services industry. Married with two children, Hennessey lives in the Scottish Borders, close to the village where he grew up. He has also lived in Glasgow, London, Jerusalem, Edinburgh, Moscow, the South of France and a dreamworld. He likes chess, graveyards and biplanes.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492893730
• ISBN 13: 9781492893738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296