Blood of Victory : A Novel

Furst, Alan

ISBN 10: 0297829513 / ISBN 13: 9780297829515

Published by Random House, 2002

About this Item

1st ed/1st pr, SIGNED on title page by the author. Book is perfect in every way -- square, solid, with DJ in protactive mylar Brodart cover -- you'll trumpet like a bull elephant once this book arrives at your door!!! NOTE: the most ephemeral evidence of handling to the sides of the pages, nearly invisible.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood of Victory : A Novel
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297829513
• ISBN 13: 9780297829515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Odessa - city of Jewish gangsters, birthplace of Trotsky and ace spy Sidney Reilly, a mixture of chicken markets and Palladian architecture. The story begins on a Black Sea freighter in the winter of 1940. A.A. Serebin, poet and journalist, is on his way to Istanbul to effect the release of a former lover. The novel brings Serebin and his protector, police officer Ascher Levitch, into contact with a foreign espionage network centred in the Russian emigre communities of Paris, Berlin and Belgrade, as well as in Odessa itself. BLOOD OF VICTORY is a panoramic novel, moving between Istanbul, Bucharest, Paris, Sofia and the Black Sea coast, involving Turkish secret police, Russian chekhists, French aristocrats, Roumanian millionaires, Polish exiles and British spies. It is Alan Furst at his uniquely brilliant best. 'Furst's ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is matchless' - Robert Harris 'Nothing can be like watching CASABLANCA for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years' - Time

About the Author

Alan Furst has lived for long periods in France, especially in Paris, and has travelled as a journalist in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has written extensively for Esquire and the International Herald Tribune.