Two Stars Clive Cussler wrote an excellent book once. Unfortunately, The Romanov Ransom is not it. This pseudo-roman à clef tome is tedious, formulaic, and outlandish. The plot is so absurdly improbable that it negates any semblance of believability. It fails to engender empathy. Briefly: in 1918, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), […]