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36 Yalta Boulevard / Olen Steinhauer.

by Steinhauer, Olen.

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St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.

Police -- Fiction.

Defectors -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction.

Europe, Eastern -- Fiction.

Steinhauer, Olen. Yalta Boulevard ; 3.

9780312332037 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Thirty-six Yalta Boulevard

Vienna assignment

1st St. Martin's Minotaur paperback ed.

308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

State Security Officer Brano Sev's job is to do what his superiors ask, no matter what. Even if that means leaving his post to work the assembly line in a factory, fitting electrical wires into gauges. So when he gets a directive from his old bosses---the intimidating men above him at the Ministry of State Security, collectively known for the address of their headquarters on Yalta Boulevard, a windowless building consisting of blind offices and dark cells---he follows orders. This time he is to resume his job in State Security and travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector. But when a villager turns up dead shortly after he arrives, Brano is framed for the murder. Again trusting his superiors, he assumes this is part of their plan and allows it to run its course, a decision that leads him into exile in Vienna, where he finally begins to ask questions. The answers in 36 Yalta Boulevard, Olen Steinhauer's tour-de-force political thriller, teach Comrade Brano Sev that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all.

Historical fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Political fiction.

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