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Don't Drink the Water:
The Year of Short Stories, –
August,
by Jeffrey Archer.
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Beautiful descriptions of St Petersburg and it's attractions interspersed in a tale that begins in Belmarsh where the author was for a while (for being sympathetic to late Princess of Wales?), told him by a fellow prisoner who happened to be a professional assassin from Russia, about an English businessman who discovered to his surprise that his wife was consulting a divorce lawyer.
Advised by his own lawyer to not indulge in his extra marital activities until the matter is settled, he's surprised by his wife asking him to take her with him on his next business trip to St Petersburg. How quickly it turns into a horror tale, with a surprise twist into a fair end, is this author's own special and usual treat expected by his readers.
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July 19, 2021 - July 19, 2021.
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