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Blood of victory : a novel

November 1940. The Russian writer I.A. Serebin arrives in Istanbul by Black Sea freighter. Although he travels on behalf of an émigré organization based in Paris, he is in flight from a dying and corrupt Europe -- specifically, from Nazi-occupied France. Serebin finds himself facing his fifth war, but this time he is an exile, a man without a country, and there is no army to join. Still, in the words of Leon Trotsky, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Serebin is recruited for an operation run by Count Janos Polanyi, a Hungarian master spy now working for the British secret services. The battle to cut Germany's oil supply rages through the spy haunts of the Balkans; from the Athenée Palace in Bucharest to a whorehouse in Izmir; from an elegant yacht club in Istanbul to the river docks of Belgrade; from a skating pond in St. Moritz to the fogbound banks of the Danube; in sleazy nightclubs and safe houses and nameless hotels; amid the street fighting of a fascist civil war.

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  • "November 1940. The Russian writer I.A. Serebin arrives in Istanbul by Black Sea freighter. Although he travels on behalf of an émigré organization based in Paris, he is in flight from a dying and corrupt Europe -- specifically, from Nazi-occupied France. Serebin finds himself facing his fifth war, but this time he is an exile, a man without a country, and there is no army to join. Still, in the words of Leon Trotsky, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." Serebin is recruited for an operation run by Count Janos Polanyi, a Hungarian master spy now working for the British secret services. The battle to cut Germany's oil supply rages through the spy haunts of the Balkans; from the Athenée Palace in Bucharest to a whorehouse in Izmir; from an elegant yacht club in Istanbul to the river docks of Belgrade; from a skating pond in St. Moritz to the fogbound banks of the Danube; in sleazy nightclubs and safe houses and nameless hotels; amid the street fighting of a fascist civil war."@en
  • ""Blood of Victory' is a novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe, by an author of the stature of Graham Greene and Robert Harris. Alan Furst is also the author of 'Kingdom of Shadows.""@en
  • "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."
  • "In 1940, Russian émigré journalist I.A. Serebin is recruited by the British secret service to take part in a desperate operation to prevent Hitler's conquest of Europe by stopping the export of Romanian oil to Germany."
  • "Een Russische spion krijgt in 1941 van de Britse geheime dienst opdracht mee te werken aan de sabotage van olietransporten van Roemenië naar Duitsland."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "War stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Adventure stories"@en

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  • "La Sangre de la victoria"
  • "Het bloed van de overwinning"
  • "Blood of victory : a novel"
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  • "Blood of victory a novel"@en
  • "Blood of victory a novel"
  • "Blood of victory"@en
  • "Blood of victory"
  • "La sangre de la victoria"@es
  • "La sangre de la victoria"
  • "Die Nacht der Sirenen Roman"
  • "Die Nacht der Sirenen : Roman"
  • "Blood of Victory : a novel"

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