Reviews for Dispatch from a cold country

The average rating for Dispatch from a cold country based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-21 00:00:00 Adam Oneil A suspenseful thriller dealing with art theft and forgery in Russia during the 1990's.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-06 00:00:00 Michael Harlow A thriller set in turbulent mid-1990s St Petersburg, starting Colin Burke, an editor for the Washington Tribune. One of Burke's friends, who took a recent trip to the Hermitage in St Petersburg, was brutally murdered. Suspecting a link, Burke takes off for Russia, ending up in the middle of some shady Russian gangsters, Leonardo da Vinci, Columbian drug lords, art historians, newspaper turf wars, a beautiful American art gallery owner, and the Russian people themselves--struggling to survive amidst the political chaos, the rampant crime, and the freezing February temperatures. A little technologically dated perhaps (the lack of cell phones in books like this always makes it obvious that they aren't contemporary), but otherwise a fast and intriguing read, even today.