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“... those of a novelist – reminding us that someone has invented all this, and it’s not Volsky but Vladimir Volkoff. And he in turn constantly reminds us of his characters’ insubstantiality: ‘but the character Marina was playing could not burst out laughing, she could only accede, bow out, literally, from the waist like a real Russian woman, and let ...”

“... chase scenes of The Fourth Protocol drag the reader along at an invigorating gallop. By contrast, Vladimir Volkoff’s The Set-Up is a ponderous affair. The plots of the two novels are exactly similar: both deal with fiendishly deep-laid Soviet conspiracies to disinform and destabilise Western democracy. But ...”