The Deadly Diplomat Alexei Guliyev Collection Book 1 eBook George J Thomas
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The young Spetsnaz officer Alexei Guliyev adopts a cover as a Deputy Cultural Attaché, to enable him to carry out black ops from Soviet Embassies in the Middle East during the turbulent 1980’s. From Syria to Lebanon, Iran and Ethiopia, Alexei plies his trade, sometimes the kidnapped sometimes the kidnapper. Inspired by actual events.
The Deadly Diplomat Alexei Guliyev Collection Book 1 eBook George J Thomas
I'm currently on a spy-thriller reading binge, so when this popped up on a Bookbub special, I grabbed it.Let's start by saying that the writer CAN write. He can string a sentence together, and has lots of good ideas going in the plot.The settings and the action are unique. It was refreshing to have a spy-thriller where Americans and their allies were the antagonists, and the Gorbachev-era Soviet union as the backdrop. The plot is fast moving, and there's lots of action. Loads of action, in fact.
What didn't work for me:
If the author is reading (I hope he will!) none of this is meant to be discouraging. Please keep writing and publishing. You CAN write - a thousand times better than a lot of Kindle-published books I've read this year alone! There were a couple of typos and a feral apostrophe (that's an apostrophe used in a plural noun), but these were unobtrusive and certainly nothing to do with my comments below.
The book starts off well with Alexei captured and tortured in a Turkish prison, but he gets out without any real harm done, enacts his revenge and jumps from mission to mission in much the same way - and this is where it didn't really work for me.
There is NO real agenda driving the main character, Alexei, so you're reading a series of episodic missions instead of following an overarching problem that the protagonist has to solve/confront across the length of the book. Yes, the CIA are trying to hunt him down, but this is so distant and disconnected from Alexei's missions until the very end of the book, it's an undeveloped threat. I would have had the CIA breathing down his neck and foiling his missions, putting him in such danger that the reader had no idea whether he would survive.
An episodic book like this could have been broken into smaller novellas and published separately, perhaps? Even so, I'd still add a CIA nemesis who foiled Alexei's missions and hurt him in ways that are progressively worse as the plot unfolds.
Alexei lacks an internal conflict/problem/personality flaw/wound that must be overcome to successfully finish his missions and develop as a well-rounded character. He sails through his missions with a lot of action and a few setbacks, but the reader is never really in any real doubt as to whether he'll triumph. As a reader, I WANT to be unsure whether he'll survive - that's what makes me turn pages. I also didn't get a sense of what Alexei was like as a person. What does he enjoy doing? What are his hopes and dreams? What makes him get out of bed every morning and go to work? This kind of characterisation, as well as development of character, is missing. I REALLY wanted to know and like Alexei but I couldn't get anywhere near him.
Anyway, the author or anyone else can take my review or leave it with a grain of salt. All writing is practice and we writers just keep learning more and more about our craft with every piece of work we produce.
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The Deadly Diplomat Alexei Guliyev Collection Book 1 eBook George J Thomas Reviews
George did a GREAT job as usual.I could not put the book down. I cannot wait to read his next bookl!!! I give him five stars
from Andy Hartman
Thomas surpasses all other political thrillers in his new novel. Prepare to stay up late, this is a story you can't walk away from once you start reading. BRAVO
An excellent read. Follows along with the adventures of Alexei the Russian agent featured in George's previous Nemesis books. The book has a good realistic feel, not a spy trying to save the world from some evil genius. There are even some blunders thrown in.
I'm currently on a spy-thriller reading binge, so when this popped up on a Bookbub special, I grabbed it.
Let's start by saying that the writer CAN write. He can string a sentence together, and has lots of good ideas going in the plot.The settings and the action are unique. It was refreshing to have a spy-thriller where Americans and their allies were the antagonists, and the Gorbachev-era Soviet union as the backdrop. The plot is fast moving, and there's lots of action. Loads of action, in fact.
What didn't work for me
If the author is reading (I hope he will!) none of this is meant to be discouraging. Please keep writing and publishing. You CAN write - a thousand times better than a lot of -published books I've read this year alone! There were a couple of typos and a feral apostrophe (that's an apostrophe used in a plural noun), but these were unobtrusive and certainly nothing to do with my comments below.
The book starts off well with Alexei captured and tortured in a Turkish prison, but he gets out without any real harm done, enacts his revenge and jumps from mission to mission in much the same way - and this is where it didn't really work for me.
There is NO real agenda driving the main character, Alexei, so you're reading a series of episodic missions instead of following an overarching problem that the protagonist has to solve/confront across the length of the book. Yes, the CIA are trying to hunt him down, but this is so distant and disconnected from Alexei's missions until the very end of the book, it's an undeveloped threat. I would have had the CIA breathing down his neck and foiling his missions, putting him in such danger that the reader had no idea whether he would survive.
An episodic book like this could have been broken into smaller novellas and published separately, perhaps? Even so, I'd still add a CIA nemesis who foiled Alexei's missions and hurt him in ways that are progressively worse as the plot unfolds.
Alexei lacks an internal conflict/problem/personality flaw/wound that must be overcome to successfully finish his missions and develop as a well-rounded character. He sails through his missions with a lot of action and a few setbacks, but the reader is never really in any real doubt as to whether he'll triumph. As a reader, I WANT to be unsure whether he'll survive - that's what makes me turn pages. I also didn't get a sense of what Alexei was like as a person. What does he enjoy doing? What are his hopes and dreams? What makes him get out of bed every morning and go to work? This kind of characterisation, as well as development of character, is missing. I REALLY wanted to know and like Alexei but I couldn't get anywhere near him.
Anyway, the author or anyone else can take my review or leave it with a grain of salt. All writing is practice and we writers just keep learning more and more about our craft with every piece of work we produce.
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