01574cam a2200301 i 4500 214740570 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 980630s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780679428886 hardcover $24.95 0679428887 hardcover $24.95 TxAuBib rda Harris, Robert, 1957- Archangel : a novel / Robert Harris. New York : Random House, 1999. 373 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Fluke Kelso was once a scholar of promise, but like so many in the highly competitive world of academia, he's never delivered. But one night, at a symposium in Moscow concerning the release of secret Soviet archives, he is approached by Papu Rapava, a former Kremlin bodyguard with a story to tell. No one but the desperate Kelso would believe the tale, for what Rapava describes is a sort of Holy Grail among researchers: an actual diary left by Joseph Stalin himself. Such an artifact, if it's genuine -- and if Kelso can survive the fascist Vladimir Mamantov, who wants it for his own agenda -- would be the coup of a lifetime for the discredited researcher. 19990209. Stalin, Joseph 1879-1953 Manuscripts Fiction. Historians Fiction. Americans Russia Fiction. Moscow (Russia) Fiction. Adventure stories. Historical fiction.