![]() ![]() ![]() It was a pleasure to watch events unfold and Olen Steinhauer’s skills evolve over the five-novel series he set in an unnamed Soviet bloc nation - from the police procedural “The Bridge of Sighs” (2003), in which the idealistic cops of the First District Militia Station are introduced, through the adventures of the enigmatic state security officer Brano Sev, to “Victory Square” (2007), which reunites the older yet wiser colleagues in a masterful mix of police procedural and espionage novel that illuminates the human dimension of a crucial historical period without sacrificing a crackling good plot.Īlthough reading the last installment was a bittersweet affair, reports that Steinhauer had something else up his sleeve - a contemporary international thriller that had attracted the attention of George Clooney and Warner Bros. ![]()
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