Victory Square by Olen Steinhauer
Steinhauer's people are real, the crimes genuine, and he is telling larger truths about that era, making it unusually accessible.--David Halberstam, Los Angeles Times, on 36 Yalta Boulevard 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 earliest cases of the People's Militia reemerges to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now the chief, who was the original detective on the case. His arrest of one of the country's revolutionary leaders in the late 1940s resulted in the politician's conviction and imprisonment, but Emil was too young in those days to understand what it meant to go up against someone so powerful--and win. Only now, in 1989, when he is days from retirement and spends more time looking over his shoulder than ahead, does he realize that what he did may get him--and others--killed.
Told against the backdrop of the crumbling forty-year-old government--with the leaders who were so new in the series debut, The Bridge ofSighs--Victory Square is Steinhauer at his best. Once again he masterfully makes crime fiction both personal and political, combining a story of revenge at any cost with a portrait of a country on the brink of collapse.
While on a Fulbright study in Romania, OLEN STEINHAUER was inspired to write his Eastern European crime series, which includes The Bridge of Sighs, The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements, and now Victory Square. The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, the Edgar Award for best first novel, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Macavity Award were all shortlisted for The Bridge of Sighs. Liberation Movements was also a Edgar Award finalist. Steinhauer was born in Virginia and now resides in Budapest.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312369712 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312369719 |
| Title | Victory Square |
| Author | Olen Steinhauer |
| Series | Eastern Europe Thrillers Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Minotaur Books,US |
| Year published | 2007-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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