A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe. Alan Furst at his uniquely brilliant best.

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 Odessa itself. ODESSA is a panoramic novel, moving between Istanbul, Bucharest, Paris, Sofia and the Black Sea coast, involving Turkish secret police, Russian chekists, 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
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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. However, he soon becomes embroiled in a foreign espionage network centred in the Russian emigre communities of Paris, Berlin, Belgrade and Odessa.
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A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe. Alan Furst at his uniquely brilliant best.

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ISBN
9780575072237
Publisert
1999-12-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352

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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 exten