Fallout

Royce, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 051757344X / ISBN 13: 9780517573440

Published by Crown Publishers, 1989

About this Item

Crown Publishers, 1989. Hardback First Edition Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. A gripping story of a man who escapes from a psychiatric hospital in the Soviet Union after the disaster at Chernobyl. He doesn't really know what happened there. He has a secret locked in his mind--the KGB hunts him and British Intelligence tries to rescue him as a manhunt takes him to London and back to Moscow. Nice, solid, clean volume, in red and black cloth binding, no corner or edge wear, lightly dust-dulled on top edge of text block. Internals in Fine Condition--very clean, no toning, no markings, no creases. Unclipped, clean, black and red jacket. 285 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1989, Crown Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fallout
• Publisher: Crown Publishers
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 051757344X
• ISBN 13: 9780517573440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction. Psychological

About this title

Synopsis

An explosive secret about the Soviet space program lies deep in the mind of an amnesia escapee from a mental asylum, who roams the radioactive streets of Chernobyl while Soviet and British teams compete to catch him

Reviews

In the aftermath of Chernobyl, a patient escapes from a Soviet mental hospital. As he wanders through a blighted landscape struggling to recapture blocked memories, British Intelligence and the KGB hunt him for the secret he holds--a secret that threatens glasnost itself. Royce delivers a low-tech thriller in which events at Chernobyl are no more than a backdrop for a conventional escape-and-evasion plot depending on trade-craft rather than gadgets. The book's most distinguishing feature is its setting in the Russo-Polish borderland, where the region's characteristics--sparse road networks, little auto traffic and few strangers--propel the action. The fast pace, however, is diminished by Royce's reliance on coincidence and serendipity; the protagonist's secret is so built up that its revelation at the end becomes anticlimactic.
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