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The Confession (Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar)

3 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

Worth the Investment
Of the four novels in this series I have read this one takes the greatest commitment. The first 75 pages seem to stumble along with little connection to a central plot --at one point Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar discusses the death of plot and I really started to worry --but almost out of nowhere a strong and emotional story with all the crime and politics you could ask for emerges. The end ...

Victory Square

3 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008

Best from Steinhauer!
The best and final of the series. Steinhauer is one of the best and this book proves it.

The Tourist
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2009

Milo Weaver used to be a ?tourist? for the CIA?an undercover agent with no home, no identity?but he?s since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA?s New York headquarters. He?s acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he?s tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind. However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo?s oldest colleagues ...

36 Yalta Boulevard

2 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006

"A Bridge of Sighs" to "Victory Square"
I had never heard of Olen Steinhauer before reading "A Bridge of Sighs", but once I started this book I was compelled to read the remaining four ( Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements, Victory Square). Mr. Steinhauer writes of an unnamed Eastern European country (possibly Roumania) after the second World War; the political changes that take place during the decades following; ...

The Tourist
Steinhauer, Olen

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2009

In the vein of John le Carre and Graham Greene, this contemporary international thriller follows Milo Weaver as he is drawn into a conspiracy that links riots in the Sudan, an assassin committting suicide, and an old friend whos been accused of selling secrets to the Chinese.

The Confession

4 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004

Exciting historical police procedural
Now turning thirty, seven years has passed since an idealistic Emil Brod joined the police force as a Comrade Homicide Detective, but now by 1956 he is like his peers, grim and ever looking over his shoulders at the KGB representative. Emil has learned survival means trust no one and gingerly investigate whenever the Party is involved. Meanwhile Police Officer Ferenc Kolyeszar prefers to be a ...

36 Yalta Boulevard

5 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

A grim man, a grime era: an uncommonly good thriller
Olen Steinhauer's Major Brano Sev is part of his Commmunist nation's security apparatus. He awakes in a Viennese park, remembering nothing, an Austrian policeman helping him up. Asked who he is, Sev produces a library card bearing the name Bernard Richter. Richter was murdered last night, but the Austrian policeman doesn't know this - and at the moment Sev remembers nothing, not even his name. ...

Liberation Movements

7 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

terrific Iron Curtain historical police procedural
On April 23, 1975, Turkish Airlines Flight 54 explodes in flight following a hijacking by the Armenian Army of the Liberation. Soviet bloc country homicide detective Katja Drdova is assigned to investigate. However, since the incident is an act of terrorism by an enemy of the state, Secret Police agent Gavra Noukas also makes inquiries under the close scrutiny of his mentor Major Brano Sev; as ...

The Bridge of Sighs: A Novel

9 reviews
Olen Steinhauer

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004

Eastern Europe Ain't No Holiday
This is an excellent adventure with strong characters struggling in an eastern european society. The mere lack of any American's in the book only adds to its sense of authenticity. The interactions of the group of miltiaman --crimes --and political intrigue --you could not ask for more!

The Confession
Olen Steinhauer

Arrow Books Ltd, 2005

The Confession
Olen Steinhauer

Thorndike Press, 2004

Eastern Europe, 1956. Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar - a proletariat writer as well as a state militia homicide detective - is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer's block, Ferenc focuses his attention on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political . . .

Half-Lives

Amazon.com, 2005

"Half-Lives" was written in an effort to better understand my own life, living in self-imposed exile in Romania, Croatia, Italy, and Hungary. The life of the expatriate has a different flavor than life at home, and truths are harder to grasp hold of in a different country. What we take for granted at home becomes something different when we're faced with cultures that see things differently, and as a result we become different. "Half-Lives" is a ...

The Confession
Olen Steinhauer

William Heinemann Ltd, 2004

The small, unnamed Eastern bloc country of Olen Steinhauer's debut novel The Bridge of Sighs is making its first tentative steps towards democracy. By command of the party chairman, the labour camps are being emptied of innocent civilians. The amnesty has begun.-But life isn't easy for the celebrated author, Ferenc Kolyeszar. He suffers from writer's block; the gnawing suspicion that his wife, Magda, is cheating on him with his best friend ...

The Confession
Olen Steinhauer, 2004

The Istanbul Variations
Olen Steinhauer

Harper, 2007

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