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Title: Lubyanka: A novel by James Burch ISBN: 0-689-11342-0 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 1983 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: This is one of my top 10 books of all I've ever read
Comment: Admittedly the book isn't perfect, it does get a bit mired down and muddled towards the middle of the book. But the escape is AWESOME. Does anybody know who this dude is, James Burch? If anyone knows who or where he is Please leave the info in a review.

Rating: 5
Summary: Better than Gorky Park!
Comment: I was amazed at how well author James Burch described the Star Wars initiative that only existed in one of his character's head. Made sense, because it didn't exist in "reality" until the year after his book was published! Every word propelled the gripping story forward, yet his protagonist was deftly drawn and the imperfect human we love to root for. The ending was foreshadowed but I didn't catch it in time to ruin the exciting conclusion. A terrific first novel by Mr. Burch.

Rating: 2
Summary: Not much of a prison break novel
Comment: The cover copy on this book bills it as prison break story but it's mostly about how horrible it is to be trapped in a Soviet Gulag. An American escape artist is blackmailed by the CIA into going to the USSR disguised as a Russian dissident. He is supposed to get himself arrested and then break out of Lubyanka prison with a Russian scientist who knows some top secret information. Along the way he falls in love with the woman pretending to be his sister and then gets himself sent to a Siberian work camp (he doesn't meet Ivan Denisovitch, though).

The whole book is very dreary and slow going. The prison escape highlighted on the back of the book doesn't happed for a long time and then is mostly a matter of knocking out a guard. The author does seem to know a lot about the Soviet Union, though.