Both authors have the same basic outlines, often centering around a man in some scientific/researching capacity that gets drawn into an adventure beyond his wildest imagination. All this embedded in settings or events of historic significance.
Here, the hero is 'Fluke' Kelso, historian and writer. The setting is Russia and the historic anchor to the adventure Kelso gets thrown into is Comrade Stalin. Or rather, a notebook of his that has been hidden after his death. Our hero is the one that gets the crucial information and help along the way to recover the notebook and all that that involves.
If that alone weren't exciting enough (and it is!), there is a nice twist at the end when he learns that not only him locating the book but everything that led up to it - his being in Russia in the first place for example - and everything that comes from it - media frenzy - has been orchestrated.
Of the books by Robert Harris that I have read (in total three) this is not my favorite (which is Pompeii) but it is definitely on par with The Ghost.
Next time, instead of reading another mediocre Dan Brown book, pick up Robert Harris. Trust me.
7/10
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