Review — THE PLOT TO KILL LENIN: With Somerset Maugham in Russia by Joseph Theroux (Western Samoa)
The Plot to Kill Lenin: With Somerset Maugham in Russia by Joseph Theroux (Western Samoa 1975-78) Kilauea Publishing 293 pages April 2022 $ 4.00 (Kindle); $10.00 (Paperback) Reviewed by: D.W. Jefferson (El Salvador 1974-76) • This is the seventh book by historian and novelist Joseph Theroux. As with his previous works, it is rich in historical detail. It is 1917 and St. Petersburg has been renamed Petrograd. There are riots, breadlines, and talk of revolution. The secret police, or Cheka, and the Red Guards patrol the streets. Somerset Maugham and Lloyd Osbourne, in the role of secret agents, have been given the mission to locate the Great Orlov, a stolen imperial jewel, whose value, it is thought, could fund the war against Germany. In addition, Alexander Kerensky, President of the Provisional Government, draws them into a plot to assassinate the leader of the Bolshevik faction, Vladimir Lenin. With Osbourne in . . .
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