Web of Madness

 'She's doing her   Solzhenitsyn thing.'

While I was drugging myself up to the eyeballs, that slow release of Phentermine is the bomb, my retina was being bombarded with conflicting images.

I really felt I was on the other side. 

I wanted to be admitted.

I wanted to fuck the nurses.

Now I'm digressing.

Ever wondered what the Gulags look like?

It wasn't the holiday that Lenin bragged about - he even had an underage maid who was kept in a cage under the staircase (  I think I  picked up the fact from the History Channel, so sorry, no references here.) 

The partnership has reached book three now.

Each one is a different angle of the tyranny of Russia.

Imagine being the jailer and then realizing that you are more capricious and crazy than the inmates you are sedating up to the eyeballs.

Yes, folks, this is heavy stuff. 

Kseniya Kirillova is a disident.

There's little to show who she is on Amazon's author page.

Let's say that she writes critical pieces on her motherland and Michael R. Davidson translates them.

They are a team.

No bang bang in these books.

Just the hard facts. 

The only thing A Web Of Madness: A Spy Novel and One Who Flew of the Cookoo's Nest have in common is that they are both set in a mental institution.

At times, the author is trespassing into Doestesky territory.

At others, I wonder if Michael R. Davidson is playing tag, and writing every second chapter.

He categorically denies it.

Kseniya Kirillova is a name to watch out for.

I know next to nothing about the author but  I've explored her soul in the book.

Expect more of the good and less of the bad.

I can tell that homage to his old CIA buddies thing being extended in this book.

Fuck, it's going to be a doozy.

There goes my credibility.