Burnt-out CIA agent, Milo Weaver, is forced to head into the field one last time. Milo was once a "tourist" -- an undercover agent with no home, and no identity. He has since retired and is now a mid-level manager at the CIA's New York headquarters. He's acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and left his old life behind. But ...
The personal becomes political in the latest in Steinhauer's award-nominated, acclaimed Eastern European crime series. The year is 1975, and one of the People's Militia homicide investigators is on a plane out of the capital, bound for Istanbul. The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their ...
Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, a proletariat writer in addition to a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer's block, Ferenc's attention is focused on his job. But his job is increasingly political, something that ...
In the last days of World War II, Emil Brod finishes his training at the police academy and accepts his first assignment--a homicide case that none of his new peers on the force think he'll be able to crack. As Brod's investigation takes him through both high and low society, he begins to understand the hidden structures at play in Eastern Europe, ...
A beautifully written thriller from the acclaimed Cold War series writer: 'a welcome addition to the wartime ground mapped out by Philip Kerr and Alan Furst' Guardian Prague, 1968: a young student is captured as he tries to flee the country in the wake of Russia's suppression of the Prague Spring. Seven years later, a People's Militia homicide ...
The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today's most acclaimed. Finally having reached the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the ...
A powerfully atmospheric thriller set during the Cold War from the internationally acclaimed author of "The Bridge of Sighs". Eastern Europe, 1965, and Security Officer Brano Sev, a secretive member of his country's homicide department, has returned home in disgrace from a posting to Austria. As a punishment he is sent to the backwoods village of ...
A powerfully atmospheric thriller set during the Cold War from the internationally acclaimed author of "The Bridge of Sighs". Eastern Europe, 1965, and Security Officer Brano Sev, a secretive member of his country's homicide department, has returned home in disgrace from a posting to Austria. As a punishment he is sent to the backwoods village of ...
This is a powerful and atmospheric thriller set during the Cold War, from the internationally acclaimed author of "The Bridge of Sighs". It is set in Vienna, 1966. To be wrongly accused of murder once is a misfortune, twice - and it's a conspiracy. It is the height of the Cold War. When a defector mysteriously returns to the Eastern European ...
This is a beautifully written new thriller from the acclaimed Cold War series writer. Prague, 1968: Peter Husak, a young student, is captured as he tries to flee the country in the wake of Russia's suppression of Czechoslovakia's fledgling freedom movement. Seven years later, a People's Militia homicide investigator with defection on his mind ...
A powerful and atmospheric thriller set during the Cold War, from the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Bridge of Sighs.' Vienna, 1966. To be wrongly accused of murder once is a misfortune. Twice -- and it's a conspiracy. It is the height of the Cold War. When a defector mysteriously returns to the Eastern European village of his birth, ...
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