![]() ![]() ![]() This was another random find from Ollie’s! It’s about Russia, did you really expect me to pass it up? The problem is that I wished I liked it better. ![]() And the more Arthur resists becoming a pawn, the more entrenched in the game he seems to become.īlood Red Snow White, a Soviet-era thriller from renowned author Marcus Sedgwick, is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Arthur wants only to elope far from conflict with his beloved, but her Russian ties make leaving the country nearly impossible. and both grow to suspect him of being a double agent. Unwittingly, he finds himself at its center, tapped by the British to report back on the Bolsheviks even as he becomes dangerously, romantically entangled with Trotsky’s personal secretary.īoth sides seek to use Arthur to gather and relay information for their own purposes. When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. There never was a story that was happy through and through. ![]()
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