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K. G. E. Konkel

Autore di The Glorious East Wind

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Netherlands born author KGE Konkel earned his degree in International Relations, served as Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police, becoming one of North America’s leading experts in Asian crime. He also is expert in Eastern European crime, having led transnational investigations that reached to the very core of the Kremlin and is one of the few western police officers to travel to Moscow to execute a criminal search warrant. In 1997 The FBI requested that Konkel travel to Poland to train that nation’s chief investigators in how to identify and combat organized crime and where he became the personal advisor to the Polish Commissioner of Police. He currently serves as a police officer in the US. With that in depth background, the substance of this hefty novel takes on greater credibility while being a work of fiction. As the author summarizes, ‘This book turns on secrets. One secret is buried in the deep, dark forest of Katyn, Poland. The other in the pages of a notebook kept in a modest café in Lwow, an ancient Polish city. The principal contributors to the Scottish Book, as the notebook was called, were professors and several pure mathematicians from the nearby university. While the mathematicians’ musings were dismissed by some as esoteric scribblings, when the Nazis overran Poland in 1939 the Book mysteriously vanished from its hiding place in the café. Some of its authors vanished too, fleeing to America to avoid certain death. With their freedom came recruitment for the Manhattan Project.’

Konkel wisely places a cast of characters for reference prior to opening this epic fiction, and then the novel commences covering pre-WW II in a manner that invites curiosity in investigating Soviet history, gradually unwinding dark aspects of wartime atrocities and manipulations and facts that have rarely found a place in literature. The secrets - it would be unfair to share in a review, as the pleasure of tackling this mammoth work is their discovery. A suggestion of the suspense this novel addresses is present early on - ‘Fedin never found out who had planted the paper in the seam of the desk. He never knew who’d informed on him for those presumably private comments in the foyer of the Supreme Soviet that muggy August afternoon. The informant? It was one and the same person. And she, Nadia Alexandrovich Fedin, was his one and only dutiful daughter.’ Konkel’s prose is turgid and probing, adding a sense of immediacy to this engrossing novel. Prepare to discover concepts that anticipate today’s Ukrainian Russian conflict!
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Applepole | Dec 12, 2022 |

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