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Andropov's Cuckoo

Free Competition – October 2019

Andropov's Cuckoo Competition
Andropov’s Cuckoo Competition

Free Competition

closes October 31st 2018

Win one of three free audiobook copies of:

ANDROPOV’S CUCKOO

Please read the review of this Thriller/Espionage Romance novel below to determine whether the genre suits your tastes and then answer the qualifying questions in order to complete your entry.

The three winners will be drawn from qualifying entrants at random and informed using the email address they provided.

My decision will be final.

Good luck,

Owen

Andropov’s Cuckoo

A Story of Love, Intrigue and The KGB

by Owen Jones

Andropov’s Cuckoo is in the genre of Thriller, but straddles the sub-genres of Love (Romance) and Espionage. It is written in the third-person singular and set in the Soviet Union, and several other Eastern and Western countries, in the thirty-odd years after the Second World War.

We meet the main character, Natasha, quite late in the novel – the fourth chapter – although we hear of her under another name before that.

Natasha was born in Kazakhstan and happened to look Japanese, which is the basis of the plot. However, Natasha was an idealistic, naive young woman who wanted to help Socialism better the condition of the Working Class around the world, and so was vulnerable to abuse by the Soviet hierarchy, which is where Yuri Andropov makes his appearance as the fearsome head of the dreaded KGB.

At first, things went well for Operation Youriko, but Natasha gradually lost her enthusiasm and wanted out, which could not go unpunished. Shortly after this point, she meets a British student and falls in love for the first time in her life, and the race is on to get out of the USSR and into the UK.

We are told that Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a true story that happened to the author himself, but that cannot be corroborated. The realism and passion in the story suggests that that might be true.

I enjoyed Andropov’s Cuckoo by Owen Jones and give it full marks. It is thrilling, pacey and realistic. Your heart will go out to Natasha, I promise you. It is a love story on several levels filial love, patriotism, idealism and romance.

To enter the competition, please send me email to:

owen@meganthemisconception.com

with ‘Competition’ in the subject line and join my newsletter with the same email address in the form on the right of this page.

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