The Moscow Club Mass Market Paperback – December 24, 2012

I am aware of Joseph Finders' work from High Crimes so I expected suspense and twists.However, this was more than I expected. He gives us a level of espionage similar to what we used to get in the 60's.In fact this book is out of the cold War era and gave me more info than I wanted as I lived through that era.If you like espionage and suspense I recommend it. Be sure though you are ready to learn some hard truths about politics and the world at large. The results we are still living today.

Finder creates a typical high octane plot with lots of plot twists and turns, but his main character Charlie is just not fully credible to me. He is a CIA analyst in a top secret group who is thrown into the middle of a world-changing international plot that makes him and anyone he is in contact with a target for both rogue American agents and Russian killers.He move all over the U.S. and Europe trying to unravel the plot and avoid numerous attempts to kill him. All of a sudden he gains a range of spy craft skills that allow him to finally be triumphant and thwart the international plot and move into a happy ending.Too much of a stretch for me.

Joseph Finder is one of my top authors and have read all of his books that are on Kindle. His first book was only in paper edition until now. I pre-ordered it and was amazed how his book described the fall of Russia very closely to how it eventually happened! At the end of the book, I also found out the author must have a very large and close family because of the many kudos that went out to them for the making of this book! A future book could be called "Finderville". I'm sure your neices & nephews were very proud to take your book to school on "book report" day! Look forward to many more books and the the exploits of his characters.

I discovered Joseph Finder by reading Power Play. Typically, I exhaust each new author I discover. Finder is a very good author. When it came to The Moscow Club, I found it riveting but scattered.Wonderful Soviet background information, but it just didn't live up to my expectations from reading nearly all of his previous novels. I understand this was his first novel, and I'm glad I found Power Play before I read this one, or I may not have become as big a fan of Finder as I am now.The subplots were interesting, and the premise was really unique, which is part of what makes Finder such a good author, he comes up with really good basic plots. It kept my interest, but I always felt like it was very scattered and difficult to follow. I have not found that in his subsequent novels.I definitely recommend it in terms of a good read, but some of his later writings will get you hooked on his writing style more readily.

Confusing story and much too long at over 600 pages. Could use a good edit. Basic theme is interesting, but hindered by needless details and unbelievable situations.

An entertaining book with lots of mystery and action/adventure. Russia often intrigues me and this helped me touch that. But with Russia, I never see 'culture' and often get a sense of survival mode. This has a lot of that. Who has written of the mystery of the apples of the silk route? This is written in a reasonably current era and not of the Khans times.

I have loved Joseph Finder’s book, and make a habit of devouring them within 24 hours of getting them. This one gave me some indigestion. The cabals are everywhere, murder is happening everywhere, nothing is as it seems, and our hero does the salsa through it all, defying death and capture and humiliation time after impossible time, though anyone unfortunate enough to know him is screwed. The wild improbability of it sinks it. And the torturous plot turns require olympian imagination to track. My imagination is pretty good, but this book requires some aspirin to deal with the mild headache it prompts. If I was not such a committed Finder reader, I might not have finished this one.

This is the first book I've read by Joseph Finder. The Moscow Club was a good read, but I after a while I knew what was going to happen next. Some of Charlie Stone's escapes were too incredible to be believable. The good thing: I didn't know the end until the last couple chapters, making it a satisfying read.

K.g.b. C.r.u. Etc, etc, so many organisations within organisations, all secret no wonder it's hard to know who to trust and that's just the u.s.a..... But don't forget the Russians. A great read, think you've solved it, then another twist to make you shout. Brilliant.

I really enjoyed this espionage thriller, which, like the best of the genre, weave the elements of the novel into real life events. This book does the weaving exceptionally well, with the key plot elements dealing with plausible current time implications of Stalin's death. Not quite Charles McCarry or John LeCarre, but very promising.

I found this novel to be a very good read. I could hardly put it down as I wanted to find out the answer to the riddles set in it. However it seemed to be a very long read.

Briliant edge of the seat read, kn time, good quality.

Great novel well written, exciting and dramatic enjoyed it!