Author:Joseph Conrad,Allan Simmons,Allan Simmons
'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Their fateful story is told by an elderly Englishman who loves Natalia but plays his part of a 'dense Westerner' to the end.
For those who find the books too long-winded and the films too noisy, this is the perfect way to assimilate the myth and magic of Middle-earth
—— GuardianOne of the jewels of the Augustan age
—— Sunday TimesWitty, perceptive, observant, provocative, wise; funny but never played just for laughs; the best book I've read this year
—— TOM HOLTAmusing, poignant, challenging...it is more than just a comic read, no ordinary passing-of age novel and certainly not a male menopause rant... In truth, it probably deserves to be in a class of its own
—— SUNDAY EXPRESSTragic, funny, sensitive, raging against the modern world, and proof that an ordinary middle-aged bloke really does have feelings
—— MICHELLE HANSONAn enjoyable, funny, touching novel.
—— THE TIMESA nice first-timer from Wilson... Lots of lovely cameos and wit... Great fun.
—— MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
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