The Dancer and the Devil

Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic

By: John E. O’Neill, Sarah C. Wynne

Narrated by: Russell Niemand

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

“God is on your side? Is he a conservative? The Devil is on my side, he’s a good communist.”—Joseph Stalin

In the wee hours of January 23, 1931, the world’s greatest ballerina lay dying. As her lungs filled with fluid, the exiled Russian, Anna Pavlova, gasped to doctors that she had been “poisoned” by food in Paris, but to no avail. To a watching world, she symbolized the glories of pre-Soviet Russia. And for that, she had to die.

Joseph Stalin, chief murderer and dictator of the USSR, devised the most devastating system of poison labs and bioweapons the world had yet seen. In his effort to consolidate power, his assassins spread across the globe, striking dead dozens of famed exiles even as he slaughtered millions of his own people. But the dictator’s diabolical fascination with toxins did not end with his death or even the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In The Dancer and the Devil, #1 nationally bestselling author John O’Neill teams up with Sarah Wynne to expose the toxic reign of terror continuing today. As engaging as a novel and packed with historical research and testimonies from modern victims of communism, The Dancer and the Devil reveals how the spirit of Stalin lives on in the hideous human experiments being conducted in the concentration camps of North Korea, in Putin’s blatant assassination plots, and in the bioweapon plans of the People’s Republic of China.

©2022 by John E. O’Neill and Sarah C. Wynne (P)2022 by Blackstone Publishing

Very informative, but what about the vaccine?

This book gives lots of information and ties things together about the poisoning over the centuries and now in modern times, COVID-19. But I feel like there’s more to that story, with the vaccination, the denial of medication‘s that were cheap and could treat the illness, and the use of mRNA in a vaccine. Further, the government putting it under emergency use so that there are no repercussions for illnesses and deaths attributed to the vaccine. I would love to see these authors delve into that.

Accuracy of Anna Pavlova death

There is no mention of her thinking she was poisoned anywhere. Because of their other deaths sounds accurate. The book was difficult to listen to, it provides a lot of information not found elsewhere.

Communism and Death

This book details a fascinating history of Communism and non-accidental death through poisoning and disease leading up to COVID and Putin/Xi.

A Pulitzer Prize

This book deserves the Pulitzer Prize and should be required reading for the world! Meticulously researched and presented in spellbinding narrative, it reads like a novel but alas, is true.

fair

Overall it was a good book. it got very repetitive and monotonous in the middle. I get it stolen killed a lot of people. let's move forward in the story

Needed history lesson

But would benefit from editing. Russian history going back to early 20th century as well as the extent of Stalin’s murders is some history that few of us know. Big surprise for me was learning the origin of poison labs was in the 1920’s, literally a century ago. I was also unaware of the extent of bio weapons operations in both China and Russia. Americans need to know what efforts our government is making to combat such dangers.