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This is more of a 3.5 star rating. This book was selected for the upcoming season of my only in-person book club, and I probably would not have read it otherwise.
It was a quick read that I knocked out in a few hours, and there are a few things that made it enjoyable - rather than use James Bond era or post-WWII era as the setting for a novel of espionage, Steinhauer uses a combination of the former Yugoslavia in the early 90s and Budapest/Cairo immediately following the "Arab Spring." The diffe ...more
It was a quick read that I knocked out in a few hours, and there are a few things that made it enjoyable - rather than use James Bond era or post-WWII era as the setting for a novel of espionage, Steinhauer uses a combination of the former Yugoslavia in the early 90s and Budapest/Cairo immediately following the "Arab Spring." The diffe ...more
With current global affairs as its backdrop, the book delves into the intrigues of the world of spies and intelligence and moves from Cairo to Budapest and back to Cairo with flashbacks to 20 years ago when Sophie Kohl and her then boyfriend Emmett traveled in Europe during the breakup of Yugoslavia. Now married to Emmett who is a diplomat in the U.S. embassy stationed in Budapest, Sophie is confronted by Emmett about her clandestine affair when they were based in Cairo. Minutes later Emmett is
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Nov 19, 2013
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