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Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months. Yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery, involving unseen letters by the great Dr. Johnson, grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology: the Malevin Procedure.
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Not for a moment did I believe in the premise behind “The Procedure”. I had no liking for the main character. I experienced no tension, no suspense, no excitement, not a single thought provoking moment.
Increasingly, my hopes for this book dissipated and it became a process of reading words until they stopped and I was filled then with an immense sense of relief.