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Victory square

Homicide inspector Emil Brod reluctantly investigates the death of lieutenant general Yuri Kolev who may have been murdered by an underground prodemocracy group.

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  • "Homicide inspector Emil Brod reluctantly investigates the death of lieutenant general Yuri Kolev who may have been murdered by an underground prodemocracy group."
  • "Homicide inspector Emil Brod reluctantly investigates the death of lieutenant general Yuri Kolev who may have been murdered by an underground prodemocracy group."@en
  • "It is 1989 in a small, fictitious Eastern European country set to explode as its 40-year-old revolution teeters on the edge of collapse. At the same time, a murderer is on a rampage. Now head of the People's Militia and nearing retirement, Emile Brod reopens a case that started his career in the 1940s (as recounted in The Bridge of Sighs) even as he finds his name on a list of elderly people to be eliminated."@en
  • "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 of Sighs--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."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Victory Square"
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