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Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears are realised and a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he demands only one thing: that he is allowed to investigate and find the killer who has struck at the heart of his family. Crippled by grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other option than to take matters into his own hands, thousands of miles from the crime scene. In a surprising, thrilling story that spans decades and continents - from the backstreets of 1960s New York to the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s - Leo will stop at nothing as he hunts the one person who knows the truth: Agent 6.
著者について
Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best Debut at the International Thriller Awards and Best Debut at the Strand Magazine awards.
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2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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I have finally read through the trilogy of Rob Smith. Child 44 and The Secret Speech were purchased at the book store in front of
the Tokyo Station. Agent 6 was delivered from Amazon.com as my being transferred to the rural village of Saga recently, in which
no big stores with the foreign books available.
Browsing the Amazon guide I came across Agent 6 which was introduced as one of the recent best sellers in the world.
Having been impatient to have the book delivered, I was really pleased to be handed over by the delivery man.
Carefully opened the package I found the neat front page with the inherited image from the previous ones.
As being non native of English, it is not easy for me to read the books in foreign version without consulting the electronicdictionary.
The gravitating plot and the plain English overwhelmed my reluctance of many repetitive consultation. Being addicted to Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Rob Smith and once Sidney Sheldon, reading them in the early morning before departing for the company was one of my modest joy. But from tomorrow what should I do? Because all of them have been read through.
Agent 6 has more than 500pages of thick book and this morning I turned the last page. Having done with it I could not move for a while not because of the fatigue but the deep emotion. The last scene has been lingering in the back of my eye lids.
I really sympathized with him who was once robust KGB officer ant returned to his tender-hearted nature triggered by his encounter with his eternally beautiful wife. The author's excellent description about the inside human on the side of the oppressor
and next on the opposite gave me the feeling as if being at the lively spot. The most impressive scenes are;
-When the hero falling in love with the attractive woman.
-When he tried to escape for -America for the vengeance.
-the final scene.
Closing this book I still look forward to coming across him somewhere in the world.
the Tokyo Station. Agent 6 was delivered from Amazon.com as my being transferred to the rural village of Saga recently, in which
no big stores with the foreign books available.
Browsing the Amazon guide I came across Agent 6 which was introduced as one of the recent best sellers in the world.
Having been impatient to have the book delivered, I was really pleased to be handed over by the delivery man.
Carefully opened the package I found the neat front page with the inherited image from the previous ones.
As being non native of English, it is not easy for me to read the books in foreign version without consulting the electronicdictionary.
The gravitating plot and the plain English overwhelmed my reluctance of many repetitive consultation. Being addicted to Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Rob Smith and once Sidney Sheldon, reading them in the early morning before departing for the company was one of my modest joy. But from tomorrow what should I do? Because all of them have been read through.
Agent 6 has more than 500pages of thick book and this morning I turned the last page. Having done with it I could not move for a while not because of the fatigue but the deep emotion. The last scene has been lingering in the back of my eye lids.
I really sympathized with him who was once robust KGB officer ant returned to his tender-hearted nature triggered by his encounter with his eternally beautiful wife. The author's excellent description about the inside human on the side of the oppressor
and next on the opposite gave me the feeling as if being at the lively spot. The most impressive scenes are;
-When the hero falling in love with the attractive woman.
-When he tried to escape for -America for the vengeance.
-the final scene.
Closing this book I still look forward to coming across him somewhere in the world.
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118 人中、103人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Enough with the 1-star reviews that have nothing to do with the book itself!
2012/1/6
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Folks, I understand your outrage/displeasure/whatever over paying more for the e-version of the book than you expected. However, three 1-star reviews that have nothing to do with the quality of the book have dragged down its overall rating, giving everyone who comes to the page a false impression that the book isn't very good - and doing the author, who certainly deserves better, an immense disservice.
Do everyone a favor and keep your reviews on-topic. They are supposed to be about the book [plot, character, structure, style, etc.], not customer service, not Amazon pricing policies, and certainly not your wallet. There are other forums for that. Go post your off-topic rants there.
Do everyone a favor and keep your reviews on-topic. They are supposed to be about the book [plot, character, structure, style, etc.], not customer service, not Amazon pricing policies, and certainly not your wallet. There are other forums for that. Go post your off-topic rants there.
41 人中、36人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Exciting, poignant ending to the series
2011/8/1
形式:Kindle版
Tom Rob Smith's final book in his excellent series went in directions I wasn't expecting. Events unfolded that kept me on the edge of my seat, unprepared for the harrowing, frightening, and ultimately bittersweet denouement of a great story. I closed the book with a sense of deep sadness that I wouldn't be visiting Leo in the future, but satisfied with how Smith concluded Leo's journey. Leo's bravery and honor in the first two books are tested and beaten down in the beginning of Agent 6. Eventually, Leo finds his way back and resolves the issues that almost destroyed him. I'm not being specific in order to prevent spoilers, but let me say that readers of the first two books will stay thoroughly involved in Leo's struggles and search for revenge. Also unexpected, Smith brings a tenderness to the finale that left me in tears. He's done a masterful job with all three books. I'm hoping that he continues to write, imbuing a new series of books with the same insightful, well-researched, character-driven stories as he has done with these three. Bravo Mr. Smith.
26 人中、21人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
`Dreaming of a better world was not without its dangers.'
2011/9/29
形式:Kindle版
Agent 6 is the concluding book in a trilogy featuring Leo Demidov, a former Russian Secret Service agent (the other two books are `Child 44' and `The Secret Speech'). The book opens with a flashback to the younger Leo in 1950: a committed, idealistic, member of the secret police who has discovered the secret diary of a young artist, Polina Peshkova. A single sooty fingerprint led Leo to deduce that the diary may be hidden in the chimney. The consequences of the investigation begin a journey which takes Leo into a different life by 1965, when we meet him and his family in Moscow.
Leo discovers Elena's secret diary, but stops himself from reading it. He will have cause to regret this. Leo's wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena, have been chosen to travel to New York as part of a `Peace Tour' meant to foster better relations between the USSR and the USA. Leo is forbidden to travel with them. Leo's paranoia about this proves to be prescient. A tragic crime is committed in New York, and Leo is determined to find the truth.
The action in this novel takes us from the civil rights unrest in the USA in the 1960s, to the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Leo is working as an adviser in Kabul, still a long way from solving the central mystery in the novel. The mystery is eventually solved, after a number of interesting but at times frustrating diversions. The plot is complicated, and some of the twists and turns detracted from the overall story. While I kept turning the pages, I found this story less interesting than the earlier novels in the trilogy: Leo Demidov is a less compelling and more deeply flawed anti-hero. I think that, ultimately, the action overwhelmed the story.
I'm glad I read it, but I think that it is by far the weakest link in the trilogy.
`I don't know what he is going to say so I can't predict what I'm going to do.'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Leo discovers Elena's secret diary, but stops himself from reading it. He will have cause to regret this. Leo's wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena, have been chosen to travel to New York as part of a `Peace Tour' meant to foster better relations between the USSR and the USA. Leo is forbidden to travel with them. Leo's paranoia about this proves to be prescient. A tragic crime is committed in New York, and Leo is determined to find the truth.
The action in this novel takes us from the civil rights unrest in the USA in the 1960s, to the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Leo is working as an adviser in Kabul, still a long way from solving the central mystery in the novel. The mystery is eventually solved, after a number of interesting but at times frustrating diversions. The plot is complicated, and some of the twists and turns detracted from the overall story. While I kept turning the pages, I found this story less interesting than the earlier novels in the trilogy: Leo Demidov is a less compelling and more deeply flawed anti-hero. I think that, ultimately, the action overwhelmed the story.
I'm glad I read it, but I think that it is by far the weakest link in the trilogy.
`I don't know what he is going to say so I can't predict what I'm going to do.'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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