airdog reviewed The secret speech by Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" …
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3 stars
As was his first book this one is very will written, fast paced with twists in the plot keeping you turning those pages.
But unlike Child 44 it had lost this unique setting of serial murders in a Stalinist Russia refusing to admit the existence of such crimes. Which makes it more like many other books set in a Western context in that regard.