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The Bridge of Sighs (The Yalta Boulevard Sequence Series) - Olen Steinhauer

By Olen Steinhauer

Release Date: 2005-06-24

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

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In this auspicious literary crime debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a postā€“World War II Eastern European city.

Itā€™s August, 1948, three years after the Russians ā€œliberatedā€ this small nation from German occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capitalā€™s rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod, an eager young man who spent the war working on a fishing boat in Finland, finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the Peopleā€™s Militia.

The victim in Emilā€™s first case is a state songwriter, but the evidence seems to point toward a political motive. He would like to investigate further, but even in his naĆÆvetĆ© he realizes that the police academy never prepared him for this peculiar post-war environment in which his colleagues are suspicious or silent, lawlessness and corruption are the rules of the city, and heā€™s still expected to investigate a murder. He is truly on his own in this new, dangerous world.
The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a dynamic cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Bridge of Sighs (The Yalta Boulevard Sequence Series) - Olen Steinhauer

By Olen Steinhauer

Release Date: 2005-06-24

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
In this auspicious literary crime debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a postā€“World War II Eastern European city.

Itā€™s August, 1948, three years after the Russians ā€œliberatedā€ this small nation from German occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capitalā€™s rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod, an eager young man who spent the war working on a fishing boat in Finland, finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the Peopleā€™s Militia.

The victim in Emilā€™s first case is a state songwriter, but the evidence seems to point toward a political motive. He would like to investigate further, but even in his naĆÆvetĆ© he realizes that the police academy never prepared him for this peculiar post-war environment in which his colleagues are suspicious or silent, lawlessness and corruption are the rules of the city, and heā€™s still expected to investigate a murder. He is truly on his own in this new, dangerous world.
The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a dynamic cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

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