36 Yalta Boulevard (Yalta Boulevard Quintet) Paperback - 2006
by Steinhauer, Olen
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Historical Dagger finalist Olen Steinhauer continues his brilliant and acclaimed suspense series.
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- Title 36 Yalta Boulevard (Yalta Boulevard Quintet)
- Author Steinhauer, Olen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Minotaur Books, NEW YORK
- Date 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0312332033I4N00
- ISBN 9780312332037 / 0312332033
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Europe, Eastern
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the jacket flap
"[Steinhauer's] people are real, the crimes genuine, and he is telling larger truths about that era, making it unusually accessible."
---David Halberstam, LA Times on 36 Yalta Boulevard
Olen Steinhauer's first two novels, The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession, launched an acclaimed literary crime series set in post--World War II Eastern Europe. Now he takes his dynamic cast of characters into the shadowy political climate of the 1960s.
State Security Officer Brano Sev's job is to do what his superiors ask, no matter what. Even if that means leaving his post to work the assembly line in a factory, fitting electrical wires into gauges. So when he gets a directive from his old bosses---the intimidating men above him at the Ministry of State Security, collectively known for the address of their headquarters on Yalta Boulevard, a windowless building consisting of blind offices and dark cells---he follows orders.
This time he is to resume his job in State Security and travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector. But when a villager turns up dead shortly after he arrives, Brano is framed for the murder. Again trusting his superiors, he assumes this is part of their plan and allows it to run its course, a decision that leads him into exile in Vienna, where he finally begins to ask questions.
The answers in 36 Yalta Boulevard, Olen Steinhauer's tour-de-force political thriller, teach Comrade Brano Sev that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all.
