Dimensions
152 x 234 x 19mm
A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe.
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 Asher Levitch, into contact with a foreign espionage network centred in the Russian emigre communities of Paris, Berlin and Belgrade, as well as 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 chekists, French aristocrats, Polish exiles and British spies. It is Alan Furst at his inimitable best.
