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title: "The Prodigal Spy"
brand: "joseph kanon"
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# The Prodigal Spy

**Brand:** joseph kanon
**Price:** Rp239834
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Prodigal Spy by joseph kanon
- **How much does it cost?** Rp239834 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    An enjoyable read
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 March 2019*

I enjoyed this book almost in spite of myself. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes or George Smiley to make a pretty good guess at the identity of "Silver" but the quality of the descriptive writing, the constant plot twists and the suspense kept me turning the pages. The "innocent abroad" storyline reminded me slightly of Eric Ambler although Mr Ambler would not have inflicted on his readers the minutely detailed, three-page sex scene straight out of a trashy porn mag! (The lovemaking episode in The Night Comers lasts less than two paragraphs and is infinitely more erotic). This is not the greatest cold war "spy" novel by any means but a decent read which helps educate non-Americans in some of that country's traumas, particularly McCarthyism and Vietnam, while rattling along at a good pace and keeping the reader gripped.

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    Slow-paced and lacks tension
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 July 2018*

We first meet the main character of the book, Nick, as a child in 1950 as his father his being investigated in the McCarthyite purges. The father flees behind the Iron Curtain but 20 years later summons Nick for one last reunion before he dies and the chance of uncovering the truth.All of the ingredients then for a cold war thriller that's tense and fast-paced. Unfortunately this book is neither of these things. The pace is pedestrian bordering on the languid, tension is minimal, and astute readers will have guessed the ending by about halfway through.

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    Love and Betrayal - the way it almost certainly was
  

*by G***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 December 2009*

I came to The Prodigal Spy from Los Alamos - hopeful but wondering if the second novel could match the standards set by the first.  I need not have worried.There are enough surprises (at least until the final pages) to sustain the narrative thrust but at the same time they restrain a reviewer from revealing too much of the plot.  Suffice to say that it is soundly based in McCarthy era America and Iron Curtain Czechoslovakia still recovering from the suicide of Jan Masaryk.  The atmosphere is convincingly oppressive.But that may still be the least of the book's virtues.  The characters live beyond the pages, and they speak the way human beings speak (dialogue in thrillers rarely enjoys an ear as acute as Joseph Kanon's).  Within the conventions of the espionage story, The Prodigal Spy explores profound issues of love and betrayal in adult, thought-provoking terms.The fact that the end becomes predictable should not deter;  it is inherent in the setting and the characters who inhabit it.  Kanon sits comfortably on the shelf beside Le Carré, Furst, McCarry - a select band

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