`ARCHANGEL' DIGS DEEP TO DISCOVER SOVIET SECRET.(Books)(Column)(Review)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: March 7, 1999 | Copyright information

Byline: Peter Mergendahl

ARCHANGEL

By Robert Harris. (Random House, $24.95).

Robert Harris is an author whose books should be looked forward to: They are meticulously researched and so well-written that you want to shut out the world, fall into them and not surface until you are finished.

Archangel begins when Fluke Kelso, a jaded American history professor who is visiting Moscow, meets an old man who claims to have helped bury Stalin'...

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