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    Moskva

    Moskva

    Jack Grimwood

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    'Even better than Child 44' Daily Telegraph 'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow...

Blood and Honour (Forest Kingdom #2)
Blood and Honour (Forest Kingdom #2)
Simon R Green | 1992 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
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This is an old favourite of mine, set in the same world as Simon R Green's earlier Blue Moon Rising but just, well, seemingly missing something compared to that earlier novel.

I struggle to put my hand on what that something is, though.

In this, a down on his luck actor - 'The Great Jordan' - is hired to impersonate Price Victor, one of the three claimants to the throne of Redhart following the mysterious death of its former incumbent, and after the chaos of The Demon War, which is really only mentioned in passing, with a few cameos from characters from said war.

None of the three claimants, however, are particularly nice characters ...

Cue a mix of magic and mayhem, with an outsiders view of the politics played in the courts of those high in the land, a few twists and turns - some of which you can see coming a mile and a half off, but others of which you (or, at least, I) didn't the first time around.

Then again, I was in my early teens that first time around ...