Blood of Victory
by Alan Furst
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In 1940, as Hitler's troops are marching into Paris, a writer named Serebin finds himself in Istanbul, where he is beginning to realize that, despite his fervent hopes, the world really has become a different place. Hooking up with a Hungarian secret agent, Serebin goes to work for the Allies trying to disrupt German supply lines--an eminently dangerous task to begin with, but his assignment is one that previous agents have tried and failed to complete....
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Random House Inc |
Date 2003 |
Price $1.19 |
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Publisher BBC WW |
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Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Random House Inc |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.00 |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.99 |
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"As usual, Furst adheres strictly to the rules of the genre....But his debts to convention work in his favor. Densely atmospheric and genuinely romantic...."
First Line
On 24 November, 1940, the first light of dawn found the Bulgarian ore freighter Svistov pounding through the Black Sea swells, a long night's journey from Odessa and bound for Istanbul. The writer I. A. Serebin, sleepless as always, left his cabin and stood at the rail, searched the horizon for a sign of the Turkish coast, found only a blood red streak in the eastern sky.
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