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Paul M. Levitt's The Denouncer is a muddle of accusations and plots and betrayals and—above all—fear. It begins with a shocking double murder. Sasha Parsky sees his parents being bundled into an OGPU van after being denounced as kulaks and snaps. He kills the pair of them with a scythe, hides the bodies, and runs back to his college. He sends his parents north. He never sees them again...
Read the rest of my review at The Denouncer.