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[Jimbuna]

....and a few you didn't know about

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Brag

Guard your smilies, Jim :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Brag]

Reading with wolves

[Jimbuna]

Dancing with wolves

[Brag]

Kingmaker by Alexey Braguine
Review by Mel Jacob
Light Sword Publishing Perfect Paperback: ISBN/ITEM#: 9780980073348
Date: 07 February 2008 List Price $16.95 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Official Info

Like so many thrillers these days, Alexey Braguine's novel Kingmaker mirrors the headlines. Set in a mythical central African nation, the novel focuses on the efforts of a cast of quixotic characters. John Trager, a jaded CIA operative, agrees to take one last mission ostensibly to find a former comrade-in-arms, Igor Dankov. Once in place, he must work through a Byzantine conspiracy only to discover two agents have already lost their lives.


Like the Cossacks of old, Dankov seeks to help the current Zengawalian president maintain power. His troops, former Russian military men and Africans from various tribes, are organized and disciplined. However, at least one powerful transnational corporation and several western governments want control of Zengawal and its resources. Operatives from these groups seek to oust the current president.
Simone Loriet, a beauty with an Algerian father and French mother, complicates Trager's search, both by his attraction to her and through his confusion over her real motives. Is she an opportunist or a patriot?
Violence and intrigues drive the action. Nice people die. Trager uncovers one twist after another.
Braguine who once lived in Africa provides plenty of local color and nasty villains for Trager to outwit. While his beautiful female characters are not above using sex to manipulate the men, they also fight either to survive or achieve political goals. Manipulated by men, they in turn manipulate others. Hard at work on his next novel, readers will want to watch for it.

Gumshoereview, March 2008

[Brag]

News, for a few brief hours Kingmaker pocked its nose into the best sellers. Still, this morning at #23 ranking in the Hot New Releases it was well Ahead of Le Carre's latest book.

Very nice reviews are beginning to help. Here is one in Gumshoereview:

Kingmaker by Alexey Braguine
Review by Mel Jacob
Light Sword Publishing Perfect Paperback: ISBN/ITEM#: 9780980073348
Date: 07 February 2008 List Price $16.95 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Official Info

Like so many thrillers these days, Alexey Braguine's novel Kingmaker mirrors the headlines. Set in a mythical central African nation, the novel focuses on the efforts of a cast of quixotic characters. John Trager, a jaded CIA operative, agrees to take one last mission ostensibly to find a former comrade-in-arms, Igor Dankov. Once in place, he must work through a Byzantine conspiracy only to discover two agents have already lost their lives.


Like the Cossacks of old, Dankov seeks to help the current Zengawalian president maintain power. His troops, former Russian military men and Africans from various tribes, are organized and disciplined. However, at least one powerful transnational corporation and several western governments want control of Zengawal and its resources. Operatives from these groups seek to oust the current president.
Simone Loriet, a beauty with an Algerian father and French mother, complicates Trager's search, both by his attraction to her and through his confusion over her real motives. Is she an opportunist or a patriot?
Violence and intrigues drive the action. Nice people die. Trager uncovers one twist after another.
Braguine who once lived in Africa provides plenty of local color and nasty villains for Trager to outwit. While his beautiful female characters are not above using sex to manipulate the men, they also fight either to survive or achieve political goals. Manipulated by men, they in turn manipulate others. Hard at work on his next novel, readers will want to watch for it.

Gumshoereview, March 2008
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Do I hear 33?:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Brag]

Originally Posted by STEED

Do I hear 33?:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

One thread, one club? Looking foward to reviews and comments from reading Kaleuns. Also to postings on the Amazon reader's reviews thinggie. Stay tuned! Soon I expect blurbs from high ranking former CIA and KGB officials.

[Respenus]

Once again Brag, all honours to you. You serve as an inspiration to all writers that have not yet had the time or the chance to boldly go where no CIA agent has stepped before. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about you in the future.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Respenus

Once again Brag, all honours to you. You serve as an inspiration to all writers that have not yet had the time or the chance to boldly go where no CIA agent has stepped before. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about you in the future.

You mean we're not already

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You mean we're not already

Sorry Jimbuna, didn't really get your point. We're not ready to boldly step where no CIA agent has stepped before. Like, we're not CIA agents, we don't have the guts, what? Do explain.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Respenus

Sorry Jimbuna, didn't really get your point. We're not ready to boldly step where no CIA agent has stepped before. Like, we're not CIA agents, we don't have the guts, what? Do explain.

It was an attempt at a humerous response to your earlier comment "I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot about you in the future"

[Respenus]

Got it now. Double negation. Sorry, it sometimes takes a while to get my funny bone started.

What I meant, is that we'll be hearing about him in the general news, he'll go on tours around the world, signing books. The whole deal. We have very our SubSim *insert a very famous writer that you like*!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Respenus

Got it now. Double negation. Sorry, it sometimes takes a while to get my funny bone started.

What I meant, is that we'll be hearing about him in the general news, he'll go on tours around the world, signing books. The whole deal. We have very our SubSim *insert a very famous writer that you like*!

No prob mate, the written is often harder to translate than the spoken

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

No prob mate, the written is often harder to translate than the spoken

NO! God forbid! I do understand written English very well, atleast, this is what I believe in. The thing is, I wasn't looking for a sentence of this sorts, that's why I was "searching" for the right meaning for a while. Otherwise I'm fairly proficient in English. I'd prove it, if only I had the time.

Sorry Brag for topic highjack. It's yours again.