Fishing With Tolstoy
by JC Newhouse
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Pub Date 28 Feb 2022 | Archive Date 11 Mar 2022
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Description
FISHING WITH TOLSTOY is a timely and heartwarming story of friendship that pokes tongue-in-cheek fun at the spy game while airing Russia’s brutal aspiration to recover its lost empire.
Putin invades Ukraine and a retired American diplomat sees his long-sought solitude crumble when an old contact from Russia shows up on his fishing dock in need of a favor that he can neither grant nor ignore.
Mike Lacondeguy worked three decades for the State Department under Russia’s shadow, and Tolstoy spent that same time with the KGB and then Foreign Intelligence Service trying to expose him as a CIA operative. Together, they flouted security restrictions, traded pranks like punches, and built an unlikely but enduring friendship.
Tolstoy is sick and appeals to Mike to help him deal with his failed health, and he passes a message from a Moscow inner circle with ambitions of stopping their president’s aggression.
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Featured Reviews
Laura R, Reviewer
4.5 stars deserving of the round up.
If I didn't know better I would think that JC Newhouse had a 🔮 crystal ball. Everyone not living under a rock knows that Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine in February of this year but you may not remember that Putin previously invaded Ukraine in February of 2014 which resulted in the forceful acquisition of the Crimean Peninsula. This is the period where the story takes place.
Let me summarize the well written blurb. Fishing with Tolstoy is a timely and heartwarming story of the friendship between a Russian spy and an American diplomat that pokes tongue-in-cheek fun at the spy game while airing Russia's brutal aspiration to recover its lost empire.
A sample: "Tolstoy was a rockstar with the KGB and later the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. He had a mean streak that would make a Moscow loan shark blanch when crossed...
My history with him went all the way back to the old Soviet days, and though our careers and ideologies pitted us on opposite sides of the diplomatic table, I've never had a truer friend."
So why did I like it? It's well-crafted, the dialogue is perfect, it's interesting and entertaining, and it couldn't be more timely. I will definitely be reading more JC Woodhouse.
