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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James FlemingPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.231kg ISBN: 9780099529521ISBN 10: 0099529521 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 04 March 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis bitterly gruesome novel...Doig's ultra-masculine, semi-brain-rotted character will surely exercise a mesmeric power over most readers...James Fleming's text sings with finely tuned nature notes -- Andrew Barrow Literary Review Set during the Russian revolution and its bloody aftermath, this is as much tongue-in-cheek historical romp as page-turning cliffhanger...If writers can be divided into minimalists and maximalists, then Fleming is out there on the militant wing of the maximalists... relentless energy and garrulous black humour ...Cold Blood has an original and talented voice behind -- Adam Lively The Sunday Times James Fleming, nephew of Ian is a class act: a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style -- Max Davidson Mail on Sunday Extraordinary use of plot and pace and language...this is a thriller, no bones about it. For anyone who feels that there aren't enough armoured trains in today's popular fiction, or enough murderous White Russians with God and destiny on their side - and I am one - this book is a must -- Giles Whittell The Times Bitterly gruesome...Ultra-masculine...Mesmeric...James Fleming's text sings with finely tuned nature notes -- Andrew Barrow * Literary Review * Relentless energy and garrulous black humour ....An original and talented voice -- Adam Lively * The Sunday Times * James Fleming, nephew of Ian is a class act: a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday * Extraordinary use of plot and pace and language...this is a thriller, no bones about it. For anyone who feels that there aren't enough armoured trains in today's popular fiction, or enough murderous White Russians with God and destiny on their side - and I am one - this book is a must -- Giles Whittell * The Times * Doig is the right kind of hero: virile, ruthless, adventurous * Independent * Bitterly gruesome...Ultra-masculine...Mesmeric...James Fleming's text sings with finely tuned nature notes -- Andrew Barrow Literary Review Relentless energy and garrulous black humour ...An original and talented voice -- Adam Lively The Sunday Times James Fleming, nephew of Ian is a class act: a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style -- Max Davidson Mail on Sunday Extraordinary use of plot and pace and language...this is a thriller, no bones about it. For anyone who feels that there aren't enough armoured trains in today's popular fiction, or enough murderous White Russians with God and destiny on their side - and I am one - this book is a must -- Giles Whittell The Times Doig is the right kind of hero: virile, ruthless, adventurous Independent Author InformationJames Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels, all of them good- The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, White Blood and Blood Rising. He writes in Scotland. Visit him online at www.jamesfleming.com Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |