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The Useful Idiot

Yazan: John Sweeney
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Moscow, 1932. Gareth Jones, a young Welsh reporter, arrives in the Soviet Union excited to see for himself how Josef Stalin is forging a new civilization.

He meets American and British journalists who acclaim Stalin's great experiment-but when Jones witnesses people starving to death in Ukraine, his belief in the Soviet revolution is shattered.

He must decide whether to report the truth or become just another useful idiot, saying only what the Communist secret police allow and smothering the evidence of his own eyes.

In this special kind of hell, anyone could be an informer, and Jones knows his life will be at risk if he is even thought to be defying Stalin. And when the woman he loves falls under the suspicion of the secret police, everything Jones values is in danger.

Can he reveal the terrible truth about the Ukrainian famine to the world, or will he be silenced forever?

The Useful Idiot is the secret history of the first great Soviet lie - wrapped up in an electrifying novel perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, John le Carre, and Kate Atkinson.

As Vladimir Putin rewrites the Nazi-Soviet pact, and with the horrors of Chernobyl and the Cold War so recent, this thriller of fake news in 1932 is real storytelling of enormous significance.

©2020 John Sweeney (P)2020 Tantor Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Kurgu Rusya Sovyetler Birliği
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Great book, terrifying and important story . Needs a professional actor to narrate it.

Great book, needs a professional actor to narrate

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It might as well depict Russia today… nearly 100 years on, the soviet regime is still killing. The book that makes me shudder.

2024 and people still falling from the windows in Russia

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It's a shame he never gave us a chapter back in England explaining how he tried to alert the world to the famine. Strangely enough Geobells used the Ukrainian famine in the election campaigns of 32-33 to point East to the evils of Communism. So the famine was certainly believed by many.

very good book.

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An interesting story of the terror in the Soviet Union of the 1930s. I remember reading the book years ago, and really enjoying it. The audiobook could have been much better and more engaging with a good professional narrator. However, it is read by the author, John Sweeney. The narration isn't bad, but it could so much better. It's more like reading than peformance.

An interesting story, let down by narration

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Thank you Mr Sweeney for another brilliant piece of writing. Not a easy read, a mix of history and fiction that achieve a kafkaïenne and overwhelming sense of dread but, and sadly, uncannily relatable to present equally terrible events

The story of a tragedy

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